Gold Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Recycling=== In 1997, recycled gold accounted for approximately 20% of the 2700 tons of gold supplied to the market.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1002/14356007.a12_499 |chapter=Gold, Gold Alloys, and Gold Compounds |title=Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry |year=2000 |last1=Renner |first1=Hermann |last2=Schlamp |first2=Günther |last3=Hollmann |first3=Dieter |last4=Lüschow |first4=Hans Martin |last5=Tews |first5=Peter |last6=Rothaut |first6=Josef |last7=Dermann |first7=Klaus |last8=Knödler |first8=Alfons |last9=Hecht |first9=Christian |last10=Schlott |first10=Martin |last11=Drieselmann |first11=Ralf |last12=Peter |first12=Catrin |last13=Schiele |first13=Rainer |isbn=3527306730 }}</ref> Jewelry companies such as Generation Collection and computer companies including [[Dell]] conduct recycling<ref>{{cite news|last=Paton|first=Elizabeth|date=23 April 2021|title=Does Recycled Gold Herald a Greener Future for Jewelry?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/fashion/jewelry-recycled-gold.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/fashion/jewelry-recycled-gold.html |archive-date=28 December 2021 |url-access=limited|access-date=17 May 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As of 2020, the amount of [[carbon dioxide]] {{chem2|CO2}} produced in mining a kilogram of gold is 16 tonnes, while recycling a kilogram of gold produces 53 kilograms of {{chem2|CO2}} equivalent. Approximately 30 percent of the global gold supply is recycled and not mined as of 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Baraniuk |first=Chris |title=Why it's getting harder to mine gold |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201026-why-its-getting-harder-to-mine-gold |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=27 October 2020 |access-date=29 October 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page