We participate in recycling programs for both eyeglasses and contact lenses to promote healthy vision and a healthy environment. Learn more below, and bring your recycling with you when you visit our office.
Contact Lens Recycling with Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE
Daily contact lenses are an excellent choice for eye health, but they generate a lot of waste. Bausch + Lomb has partnered with TerraCycle to offer a recycling program for contact lenses, blister packs, and foil seals called Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE Recycling Program.
Materials from all contact lens manufacturers and brand are accepted. Patients can collect materials and bring them to the collection bin in our office. Cardboard boxes can be recycled through regular municipal programs and are not included in ONE by ONE.
Eyeglasses Recycling with Lions Club
Dunbar Eye Associates participates in the Lions Recycle for Sight program. We have a collection box in our office, and we’re happy to take your old glasses, including sunglasses and reading glasses. You can learn more about the program on lionsclub.org.
The Journey of Recycled Glasses
Lions and Leos collect used eyeglasses at various community locations.
The glasses are shipped to the nearest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center where trained volunteers sort, clean and determine the prescription strengths of the glasses.
Volunteers at the recycling center carefully package the prepared glasses and store them until they are required for eyeglass dispensing missions. Glasses that are not suitable for reuse are recycled for scrap, with the earnings benefiting local Lions and Leos projects.
At the mission site, eye care professionals and trained Lion and Leo volunteers perform vision screenings and dispense the appropriate recycled glasses, free of charge, to children and adults in need.