Sustainability
SUSTAINABILITY
- Seawater Recycling:
The AP process occurs in land-based facilities, where the used seawater is pumped from the Pacific Ocean Cost, filtered, used intensively – 95% of the total is reused per hour. The seawater that is returned to the sea passes through various mechanical filters to reintegrate the water, separating the solids that are subsequently composted.
- Animal welfare:
The cultivation of pearls in abalone is carried out under conditions of animal welfare from the beginning of the process to the end with the harvest of the Atacama Pearls. During the process, care is taken to ensure that the number of animals in each pond where they are kept has an excellent quality of water and that the agglomeration or density of the animal population is adequate for a better quality of life for them. Both in the nucloes inoculation and pearl harvesting surgeries, anesthetics used in human medicine are used, the whole process present less than 1% of mortality.
- Waste utilization:
After the pearl harvest, two main products are obtained, abalone meat that is destined for restaurants generally serving Japanese food and the other product obtained are abalone shells rich in mother-of-pearl. With them we have developed products such as soaps that have positive cosmetic properties. At the same time, we are developing a social project sponsored by the Regional Government of Antofagasta, Chile, to promote introduction to basic jewelry in high school students from educational establishments from lower-income households. Our dream es transform our city, which is the center of copper production worldwide, into an outstanding region of jewelers.
Finally, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) are at the center of our company, therefore, when a customer prefers our products, they contribute to the sustainable development of knowledge-based companies.