How Tiffany & Co earned 4th most sustainable American company on Barron?s Annual List
Barron's in association with Calvert Research & Management just released their Annual 100 Most Sustainable Companies in America and Tiffany & Co moved 12 positions from 16 to 4th place.
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An gold illegal mining operation is seen in the Amazon lowlands. Small-scale miners are drawn to the area in hopes for higher pay but often face abysmal conditions. Gold is usually amalgamated with mercury during the process of informal mining in the region, which is discharged into the water supply and air, poisoning fish and sickening people in the area. Peru is the largest producer of gold in Latin America and the sixth-largest in the world. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) The concept of producing sustainable and socially responsible jewellery where – goods must not only be derived from sustainable production sources, but also assembled from fairly paid labour ? is not a new one but it has been until fairly recently, a practical contradiction of terms. After all, the majority of the world?s gold is extracted from open pit mines, where huge volumes of earth are scoured and processed for trace elements. According to MIT, open pit mining is one of the most common forms of mining but because the desired minerals are often only available in small concentrations, this increases the amount of ore needed to be mined, and thus, makes it the most enviro...
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An gold illegal mining operation is seen in the Amazon lowlands. Small-scale miners are drawn to the area in hopes for higher pay but often face abysmal conditions. Gold is usually amalgamated with mercury during the process of informal mining in the region, which is discharged into the water supply and air, poisoning fish and sickening people in the area. Peru is the largest producer of gold in Latin America and the sixth-largest in the world. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) The concept of producing sustainable and socially responsible jewellery where – goods must not only be derived from sustainable production sources, but also assembled from fairly paid labour ? is not a new one but it has been until fairly recently, a practical contradiction of terms. After all, the majority of the world?s gold is extracted from open pit mines, where huge volumes of earth are scoured and processed for trace elements. According to MIT, open pit mining is one of the most common forms of mining but because the desired minerals are often only available in small concentrations, this increases the amount of ore needed to be mined, and thus, makes it the most enviro...
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