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WHY SUSTAINABLE
Sustainability is not doing it alone; sustainability is doing it together.
While Small Impact Studio has been set up to embrace a sustainable ethos, it is not what defines what we make. Scott and Gina believe that good design must come first, and impact follows as people choose to live with their designs.
Sure, it is great to roll out the sustainability credentials, but one of the greatest markers of that ethos is longevity. Scott explained: ‘We have honed our design identity so that our glassware reveals it’s history very lightly., whether worn as a piece of jewellery, or an exhibition piece of glass. Sustainable practice is a much bigger idea today that merely recycling. ’
Good design must come first and allow impact to follow.
Over the first five years of the studio, we have worked to change the our whole language around recycling, following the sentiment that these materials are a design resource, and carry histories with them.
Gina added: ‘I love the intersection of really refined materials and strong design, with the organic quality that recycled materials can offer. That is what we are trying to find in my jewellery – that balance that teeters in a sweet spot.’
Scott continued: ‘You have to be smart to be committed to creating an impact. In many ways, we entering the design market at the point when sustainability was right ‘on trend’, but it takes a decades of working with glass to recognise that the collecting and design market has reached a maturity that demands more of that circular economy.'
OUR PACKAGING AND SOLAR
When we set up the studio we bought a roll of bubble. We are proud to say we still have not opened it – and continue to track the days it remains unused. We always try to on-use all our packaging and wrapping, and partner with local shops and galleries to save their discarded packaging from landfill.
In 2024, we crowdfunded with the help of the Australian Cultural Fund, to turn the studio over to solar power. Today, all our water use and electricity is fully operated off our panels - even our large three phase kilns.
WE OFFSET OUR CARBON
Part of our holistic sustainable practice is to offset our studio carbon emissions. All our shipping - the parcels that come to you - and our daily studio emissions, are countered by a commitment to planting native forests, which reduce the impacts of climate change and restores our habitat, via the Australian company Greenfleet.
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