Cleo Escarez, Founder of Redyoos. Recycling Jewelry to Support Clean Technology

In todays episode we speak with Cleo Escarez, the founder of Redyoos. A company focused on supporting the clean energy transition through recycling jewelry and precious metals. Redyoos supports the circular economy by reducing the need for mining for new finite precious metals, and provides a direct end of life solution for consumers and businesses to properly discard their pieces.  The problem:  Precious metals like silver and gold are critical for green technology like solar panels, batteries, medical devices, more. Yet An estimated $61 billion in precious metals is landfilled annually. These materials are essential for processing in computers, phones, medical devices, solar panels, and wind turbines. 30-50% of virgin silver and gold production go toward jewelry, in a time when there is increasing demand for these critical technology.  Its also getting harder and harder to find these finite materials in nature. The Solution: Precious metals are infinitely recyclable without any loss of quality, offering a viable path to a more stable and sustainable supply chain. Redyoos connects the end of life of jewelry into renewed inputs for critical green technology through recycling. This conversation dives into our pursuit for real impact, finding the blue ocean opportunities in combining unlikely industries,  and the power of cross industry partnership. People don’t usually put jewelry and green technology in the same conversation but Cleo proves their link and finds solutions for one with the waste of another.RedyoosVideo Interview