Designer and materials researcher Karoline Healy has created new rings under her jewelry brand H2ERǴ using metals that are ‘mined’ by plants. This features the upcoming technology known as phytomining, which can be found in special species of plants, hyperaccumulators. They are able to suck up metals from the soil through their roots and this was used to form the sphere set into the ring.
Healy shares with Dezeen, “These plants look extraordinary. They bleed green nickel sap – nickel being a necessary element for stainless steel alloys. As a jeweler I connected the dots and thought about how it would be possible to source precious metals using biology in a renewable way, being in harmony with ecosystems, acting as a reason to clean up waste.”
Image Credit: Karoline Healy
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