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Recycled wire and scraps of used prepaid phone cards in Kenya.
Some of our favorite recycled jewelry items are these "dancing girl" earrings, made of recycled wire and scraps of used prepaid phone cards by craftspeople in Kisumu, Kenya.
These earrings are funky and eco-friendly! Your purchase helps support a great jewelry cooperative that finds work for villagers in Kenya, while reusing garbage scraps that are piling up and would otherwise cause a major environmental concern.
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materials. Water hyacinth—a weed that is clogging Lake Victoria—, tin sheets of misprinted bottle caps, recycled wire, tin cans, and discarded phone cards, all find new lives as the artisans of Creative Alternatives create greeting cards, ornaments, jewelry, and functional products, which they sell to provide a sustainable livelihood for their families. Operating under the auspices of Fair Trade, Creative Alternatives ensures the craftspeople with whom it works are paid a fair price for the products they produce.
