Sustainability - Our Promise

 The fashion industry is impacting the planet in many ways, from waste, materials, plastics, pollution, and carbon footprint. Understanding all the elements of this impact and acting sustainably is incredibly challenging in an industry driven by seasonal trends and newness.

The jewellery industry, in specific, is often tarnished with cheap and unethical products and workers are paid very little for their labour. 

At Augusta & George, we work closely with our factory to ensure we do business differently. We are committed to sustainable practices, with being environmentally conscious at the forefront of our company - Always looking for ways, big and small, to help protect our planet from climate change. 

At Augusta & George, we will be 100% transparent and honest, opting for recycled metals and ethically sourced stones and will always avoid cheap materials to keep costs down. 

Our modern heirlooms are designed to be passed on to the next generation, wanting you to own our high-quality jewellery pieces for years to come.
Read about our Butterfly mark accreditation here.

We proudly work closely with our factory, allowing us to maintain a high level of quality and, more importantly, produce our handcrafted jewellery. This means we can listen to demand and thus avoid creating excess products, causing unnecessary stock. This ultimately reduces greenhouse emissions and ensures the sustainable consumption of resources.

Every Augusta & George piece is crafted locally, so it prevents a large carbon footprint by not requiring samples and orders to be sent back and forth abroad.
Our designers work with our factory to create quality jewellery carefully crafted by experts that last multiple lifetimes and can be handed down through generations.
We encourage customers to opt for silver base metal as it can be recycled again. If one were to tire of their piece, it could be taken apart, melted down, and created into something new using the same materials but in a way that makes it fresh again. The value of these materials creates an inherently sustainable life cycle.
We also plate higher microns because when you buy better, you can wear them longer.

Our factory currently meets the European Union's REACH (Restriction, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals) regulation, which aims to restrict hazardous substances such as nickel, lead, and cadmium in all parts of jewellery that could reasonably be accessed by the end consumers, and ultimately reduce the number of harmful chemicals in the environment.

Our factory is a certified member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative. The BSCI is a leading supply chain management system that supports companies in driving social compliance and improvements within the factories in their global supply chains.

We are very proud to announce that we have received a Score of A for social rights, employee protection and ethical working practices.

All the metal scrap created from the Augusta & George factory is always recycled back into the system. Using a filtering system, we can collect the dust particles of our precious metals, ready to be reused again.

Any soft plastics that are used or come into our business, along with cards, papers, and courier bags/boxes, will also be recycled or reused.

At Augusta & George, we are committed to ethical sourcing and work exclusively with our long-term trusted suppliers who guarantee ethical sources of our materials, including chains, findings, and stones.

Simulated gemstones (including Cubic Zirconia and Nano Gems) are used where possible as they are laboratory-grown, fully traceable, and offer a very similar look to mined gemstones. These are of the highest quality and durability, designed to last a lifetime and beyond.

They will withstand wear as per all precious and semi-precious gemstones, often with improved hardness and stability, too. Every laboratory-grown is carefully selected for its beauty and optical qualities compared with natural stones, determined by its brilliance, colour, clarity, hardness and durability.

All the crystals we use are hand-glued, using a supplier who is at the forefront of sustainability. Our crystals are lead-free and are responsibly produced through various social and environmental programs.

By using silver, we are using a precious metal that produces the least volume of carbon footprint (when compared to gold and platinum). Metals are fundamental when creating jewellery. However, the mining of virgin metals can be highly problematic for the environment, and this often involves destroying natural environments and using toxic pollutants, which choke sounding habitats and ecosystems. Our factory works with a metal supplier that purchases silver from previously owned jewellery. The unwanted precious metal is then refined through a scrap refining technique to purify the metal and then transformed into new silver in the form of casting grains. This regenerated silver is then re-cast and made into new silver jewellery again. Our silver refiner supplier is listed on the LBMA's (London Bullion Market Association) Good Delivery List, the global authority on precious metals. Recycled metal is no different from virgin metal in its makeup, and there is no effect on the quality or the look. The precious metals used by Augusta & George are just as high quality as newly mined silver but require no new mining.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.