Recycling spectacles

Good news about that Valels - I have some here that I can send.

Our village shop has a box where we can leave old specs and hearing aids too. We're very green and there are also boxes outside some houses to recycle empty pill packets, empty toothpaste tubes, old makeup containers, corks etc etc. Also a monthly event where folk bring broken equipment for fixing. DH has mended a couple of bikes and kids pedal carts. We have a cutting down on plastic challenge too this month.

Thank you Notspaghetti . I've been in touch with www.chilions.org.uk/specs.htm
and they are accepting them, so can get rid of them at last!

A charity here in Berkshire for the homeless currently has a plea out for spectacles . An optician in the town is doing free eye tests and the charity are paying for the lenses .

Details here
www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/old-glasses-helping-newbury-s-vulnerable-and-homeless-9200229/

They regularly include it on their Facebook page .

NotSpaghetti, thank you for the link. I have a pile of them and am off to find a shoebox! That shouldn't be too difficult, considering my obsession with shoes.

I asked in my local Secsavers last week and they are no longer taking them.

Thanks everyone, that gives me lots to work on, surely someone will take them!

Just noticed today that Specsavers have a recycling bin outside the shop. I don’t know if they all have them.

I don’t think anyone is taking them. Even VisionAid stopped last August.

Or this Lions club if you don't mind posting:
www.chilions.org.uk/specs.htm

OR, maybe your local Lions don't k ow the spectacles can now be recycled again.
Good luck.

Try the Rotary Club. They used to take them.

My local charity takes them but this was before Covid. It is very local, it is a church not far away.