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Happy Earth Day!
The American Optometric Association has published several interesting facts in the spirit of Earth Day:
- 15 to 20 percent of contact wearers flush lenses down the sink or toilet
- An estimated 6 – 10 metric tons of plastic lenses end up in wastewater in the U.S. each year
- In wastewater treatment, contact lenses likely breakdown to form microplastics
- Microplastics pose a risk to aquatic organisms, marine animals, and eventually the entire food supply
- Most contact lens packs are stamped with number 5 for recycling through your municipal service, where available. However, Plastic #5 or small items (like the contact lens basin) are often excluded.
- There are recycling programs available especially for contact lenses and their packaging.
Visit the joint venture from TerraCycle and a prominent contact lens manufacturer Bausch+Lomb to learn about their "One By One" contact lens recycling program - every bit of the contact lens package (*including the used contacts!) can be recycled.
We recycle your contact lenses and packaging!
With the popularity of single use, daily disposable contact lenses, wearers frequently have concerns about the extra packaging\s impact on our environment. Worry not, dear wearer! Our office partners with TerraCycle and Bausch+Lomb's "One By One" recycling program to ensure materials are properly recycled. Since these items are too small for community recycling programs, bring them to us and we will send off to TerraCycle.
What can be recycled with TerraCycle:
- The plastic basin each sterile lens rests within
- The foil top to the package
- Your used contact lens
What cannot be recycled:
- The sterile saline - dump down the drain and let your municiple water treatment facility take of its own recycling.
With your cardboard packaging being the lone item to enter municipal recycling bins, that means every piece of the contact lens and packaging can be recycled. Drop off your used collection of empties and let us handle the rest!
