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Help the world recover from pollution while keeping your style! Ghanaian artisan Eliasu Adams works with recycled glass and sese wood beads to create this stylish stretch bracelet in a palette of orange and black hues, perfect for those adventurous spirits that express their love for the environment.

Thailand's Nareerat brings a set full of warm orange tones. These five beaded stretch bracelets feature aventurine chips, glass beads, quartz beads and brass accents in charming designs that complement any style, making a handy addition to your wardrobe.

Tina Quaye selects agate, the ultimate stone of protection, for the design of these stretch bracelets. Enhanced to glossy shades of green, orange and brown, the freeform agate beads are threaded by hand. Quaye calls her design Odo Tintine, the Akan term for love web.

Warm hues enhance the elegant beauty of the natural agate stones composing this graceful accessory from Ghana. Tina Quaye spreads a message of love for the environment in this stretch bracelet, whose charming jewels are accented with recycled glass beads in brown and golden hues.

Enigmatic colours capture the beauty of the spiritual world through shiny beads, the same that compose Tina Quaye's newest design. The Ghanaian artisan sends an environmental message with this sublime piece, made from recycled glass and crystal beads in purple and orange hues, symbols of spiritual harmony.

Orange and yellow hues merge to create a cheerful and audacious aura in this beaded bracelet by Tina Quaye from Ghana. The artisan helps the environment by using recycled glass beads to craft this beautiful accessory that stretches for a comfortable fit. Titled Aseda, the piece also means "thanksgiving" in the Twi language.

Ghana's Mary Gyamfua Ansah uses a warm palette to create this cheerful accessory full of style and environmental consciousness. The discs that compose this stretch bracelet are crafted from recycled plastic, all meticulously arranged around natural agate stones, whose natural colour creates a stylish aura around the design.

These pretty beaded bracelets are the creation of Sang Ayu Sardiwati of Bhakti Senang Hati, a foundation in Bali that assists the physically disabled to attain physical and economic independence and build self-esteem. "Although we live in very limited conditions, my childhood was very happy", says artisan Sang Ayu. "I used to work carrying stones for a dam construction when I was in Junior High School so I can pay the school fee myself. Unfortunately the dam suddenly collapse and huge stones broke my leg. Now I have to use a prosthesis everywhere. I was so depressed, very not confident after the accident, I usually hide and shy whenever people visiting our home. But finally my spirit is back after I saw my parents were crying because my depressed condition. After pray to God, I feel more patient and strong. I even graduated from a university, and I start making handicrafts. After I joined the Foundation, I met my husband and now we have three boys." One stretch bracelet is crafted from blue and orange ceramic beads alternating with brown coconut shell beads, while the other is entirely of coconut wood.