Excuse me!
If she is reglazing the pieces she is using a kiln which fires at 17-1800 degrees with either gas or electricity!
How can you call this green when a ceramic dish or cup that already used tremendous energy when it was made by being fired in a kiln is then fired again?
Her dishes and cups have now used TWICE the energy of any other dish or cup.

That’s not tree hugging that's clear cutting.

I love the simplicity of ,her designs and the emotional appeal of reusing old plates. I guess they are all different! Lovely

In response to JG

She may be using more energy when the recycled dish is fired, however if a consumer was to buy a new ceramic dish the same amount of energy would be used to create that dish and additional natural resources would be needed for the dish. Sarah's dishes still would have a smaller impact on the environment then throwing away old dinnerware and buying new ones. I think you are missing Sarah's point. She wants to start a larger movement of product reuse. Finding new ways to reuse today's trash would certainly have a positive or at worst neutral effect on the environment.

Mark wrote-
"I think you are missing Sarah's point. She wants to start a larger movement of product reuse."

She is not part of any movement of re-use she is using considerable energy to produce a new product. I suspect she can't throw a decent shape so she has found a way to make dishes without learning the craft of throwing a decent dish.

My main concern is with Treehugger. They put her work on thier site as a "GREEN" product.
IT IS NOT!!!!.
Recycling ceramics happens at places like Fish Eddy's http://www.fishseddy.com/ where old restaurant and club plates and serving dishes are sold. Almost all of my dinner ware has come from there.
No re-firing just the use of transportation to get the dishes to the stores.
I have built a couple of kilns and know how much energy they use. To refire dishes is wastefull.

I checked out that company - Fishs Eddy. They don't actually sell vintage products. The couple who started the business were antique dealers who sell products with vintage themes...they also offer products from various designers.

New products only though i am a afraid...not so green afterall.

I do NOT understand how JG considers these to be 'wasteful of energy'. She is preventing them from going in the landfill (where they probably never break down). She is preventing people from buying brand new ones - requiring the same firing her old ones do. Unless we find someway to eat off of carved wooden plates again, we are going to have do deal with china. I myself wish I lived closer to her. I save cracked china because I do not know what to do with it.

I am looking into doing a similar thing with ceramics myself. I don't know much about the process, however. Is there anyway to repaint these pieces without having to fire them again? What other painting options are there?