Designer Combines Recycled Metal with Lab-grown Gems — VOA Learning English
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For some, a natural diamond, created over billions of years, is what they have always wanted. But an award-winning British designer sees greater worth in jewelry made using laboratory-grown gems and metal from recycled cans.
Recycling is a process that makes something new out of something that has been used before.
Anabela Chan, the jewelry designer, said she chose her materials after seeing what she said were poor working conditions in diamond mines.
"These are some of the most precious and valuable commodities in the world, that just didn't make any sense to me," she said in her store in Britain’s capital of London.
Instead, her designs use lab-grown diamonds, recycled aluminum from cans, and…
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