Spectacles
Environmental benefits: By donating your spectacles to a good cause they will be put to good use and become one less item to join a landfill site and become an environmental hazard.
How to recycle: Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) is a registered charity that collects, sorts and distributes glasses to developing countries. You can post your old spectacles to VAO. To find out more about these schemes, ask your optician or check with charities in your local area. Both opticians and charity shops now have collection boxes for old spectacles to be deposited in.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle. Where can I recycle glasses
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