This jewelry is made from plastic found in the ocean and it’s SO pretty

Ocean waste never looked so good

heart shaped island in blue ocean
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We’re obsessed with new and upcoming jewelry brands, especially when they feature on our best sustainable jewelry list so when we heard about Brit designer Hannah Warner’s new collab with Ibiza’s Orca Sound Project we knew we had to share.

necklaces in palm of hand

(Image credit: ORCA SOUND PROJECT)

The one-of-a-kind collection features three jewelry designs, all made from recycled ocean plastic collected from the shores of Ibiza. Jewelry lovers can choose from two ring designs and one necklace, each available in either silver or gold with three unique colourways. The collection is not the cheapest when it comes to sustainable jewelry brands but we’ve fallen in love with the ocean inspired shades featured in the recycled plastic ‘gemstones’. 

Calypso ring

silver ring with blue gem

(Image credit: Orca sound project)

Nova pendant

PENDANT

(Image credit: ORCE SOUND PROJECT)

Eclipse ring

RING

(Image credit: ORCE SOUND PROJECT)

Orca Sound Project was born out of a need to create awareness around the amount of ocean plastic waste around the Balearic Islands and they will be donating 20% of profits to ongoing clean-up activity in Ibiza.

Jewelry designer Hannah Warner commented, “When the Orca Sound Project team showed me the staggering statistics of Ibiza’s waste problem, there was no hesitation for me to get involved in a creative project with them collaborating with their process of collecting and compressing waste plastic and reusing it to make wearable pieces of jewellery. Every consumer of each piece of the collection will be helping towards the cause.”

Known for her contemporary designs, you might have spotted Hannah Warner Jewellery designs on the likes of Rihanna in Vogue China and model Alice Dellal.

Lydia Swinscoe
Travel writer & editor

Lydia is a travel writer and editor, based mostly in London. Her work has been published in print and online for the likes of Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Town&Country, BBC Good Food, Oh magazine, MailOnline, and woman&home.

A solo trip to Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico aged 19 kickstarted her travel addiction and she's since gone on to explore parts of 58 countries, returning to many often. Solo travel is her specialty, and she's happiest when hunting out great food while wearing flip-flops, preferably somewhere hot. Her award-nominated blog Lydia Travels documents artistic intimate hotels and brilliant restaurants across the globe. 

She began her career compiling fashion and beauty pages for teen magazines at the BBC where she interviewed and styled some of the world's biggest pop acts—from Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato to One Direction—before joining celebrity magazine Now, as Fashion and Beauty Director, and later Woman magazine as Lifestyle Director.

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