Our specialization in making polyethylene jewellery started in 2014 with the project Aquamadre.

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Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a transparent thermoplastic material which peculiarity intensified its using in the daily routine, creating huge impact on the environment during producing and disposaling phase*.

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Thanks its structural features, nevertheless, PET is the most suitable material for thermal treatments using non-industrial methods and therefore to be recycled and reinvented.

Aquamadre is born to realize the green vision of MagmaLaB, the challenge-idea behind.

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IDEA: using available material, widespread and abundantly present in our life that at the end of its lifetime can be extracted, transformed, reshaped and requalified.
 

CHALLENGE: transforming the core of a “common” material, removing its primary essence, reinterpreting and establishing a new use, rebirthing and giving value.

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Innovative material processing that plays with transparency and colours, lightness and strength gives to these jewels techniques and aesthetic peculiarity making them unique: glass look-alike, these jewels are shatterproof and so light that you nearly don’t realize you wear them.

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* A few key facts and figures

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• Only in Italy, in 2024, approximately 234,000 tonnes of PET bottles were placed on the market, with over 165,000 tonnes collected for recycling (source: CORIPET).

• Producing 1 kg of PET — equivalent to about 25 bottles of 1.5 litres each — requires an estimated 2 kg of petroleum and 17.5 litres of water, according to industry data.

• The recycling rate for PET bottles in Italy has reached around 70% of the total placed on the market, while the remaining 30% is still disposed of through landfilling or incineration.

• The production of PET generates between 2.2 and 2.7 kg of CO₂ emissions per kilogram of material produced, according to recent Life Cycle Assessment studies (2023–2024).

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Figures updated to 2024