recycled artists

Centering this necklace, a pendant of recycled plastic resembles amber. Ghanaian artisan Tina Quaye designs and crafts this boho necklace, circling the wearer with beads of green recycled glass and brown sese wood. This necklace is named Anonyam, meaning "glory" in the Akan language.

Beaded with an exciting medley of recycled glass, soapstone, sese wood, and bamboo, this beautiful necklace is designed by Ghanaian artisan Nonyem Abena Ibeneme, making a statement for environmental responsibility. An elaborate pendant is made with dangling nylon cord, and the necklace closes with a brass clasp.

Making a statement for environmental responsibility, Ghanaian artisan Nonyem Abena Ibeneme beads this necklace with glass and plastic recycled from drinking bottles in tones of blue, amber, and black. A beaded pendant centers thelong necklace, which slips over the head.

Inspired by the ideologies of people like Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghanaian artisan Akwele Suma hand-crafts a lovely beaded pendant necklace recreating nature, animals and humans living together in harmony as a symbol of justice and peace. A collection of lovely charms depicting people, trees, fish, elephants, birds, houses, the globe and a pendant of the scales of justice are handmade from recycled cardboard, detailed with ink, knotted onto a silk cord and topped with sese wood beads.

A vibrant multicolor palette embellishes Ghanaian artisan Janet Donkor's latest design. Handcrafted from recycled glass, this pendant necklace also has cat's eye beads and a brass hook clasp. Janet titles the accessory Oyerepa, meaning “good wife” in Akan.