Glasses stores offer discounts for recycling contact lens cases
Glasses stores offer discounts for recycling contact lens cases
2026-01-15
Disposable contact lenses are convenient, but create more waste, as each lens comes in a small plastic package. But these packages can be recycled! Some glasses stores are offering discounts to customers who return packages and are even launching recycling programs. It only takes six contact lens cases to make a carabiner, and 10 can be turned into a comb.
Lots of people wear contact lenses every day, helping them see clearly without the inconvenience of physical glasses. Now glasses stores are offering discounts for returning the small plastic cases they come in for recycling.
Huang Chun-chen
Optometrist
Help us to throw away the foil covering and remove the contact solution, just keeping the polypropylene plastic case. Once you’ve accumulated a number of them, just bring them to us. When we have enough, we’ll find some companies that can remanufacture them.
Most contact cases are made from polypropylene, which is lightweight, heat-resistant, and easy to recycle and remold. Just six of these cases can be transformed into a carabiner, and 10 could be remade into a comb.
Hsu Wen-wei
ei studio founder
This cup was made from a large amount of contact lens cases. This carabiner was molded in one piece, so it keeps properties from the contact cases, including the material’s flexibility. We didn’t expect that in early December, a lot of people started asking us how to recycle them, so we started setting up a recycling form. Now we’ve already collected over 100 kilograms.
Glasses stores have begun offering rewards to customers who return contact cases. This makes recycling them not only sustainable, but financially beneficial, too.
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隱形眼鏡包裝殼別丟 眼鏡行推廣回收"可換環保金"
2026-01-15
日拋的隱形眼鏡相當方便，但眼鏡戴上之後，剩下的外包裝塑膠殼，千萬別丟掉，因為這些硬殼都能回收，OPT圓瑞、寶島眼鏡、尖端視光都祭出優惠折抵，甚至有工作室推出回收計畫，因為隱形眼鏡的包裝殼材質，透過專業處理，只要6個就能變成登山扣，10個就能做成一把梳子。
戴上隱形眼鏡，把世界看得清楚，不過這小小的透明包裝殼，先別急著丟垃圾桶，許多眼鏡行都推出回收優惠。
[[驗光師 黃群宸]]
"幫我們將鋁膜丟掉，把隱形鏡裡面的水倒掉，將PP盒保存好，累積到一定的數量之後，帶過來給我們就可以了，數量比較充足的時候，我們會找到一些可以將PP盒再製的一些業者"
隱眼包裝殼，多半使用聚丙烯製成，結構單純又耐高溫，透過專業處理，就能大變身，一個登山扣只需要6個包裝殼，10個包裝殼能做成一把梳子。
[[ei studio創辦人 許文薇]]
"像這個盆器，就是使用大量的隱形眼鏡盒，這個登山扣是一體成型，所以也是沿用眼鏡盒的本身的特性，所以它本身，就有一個材質的彈性，12月初的時候，沒想到就是有蠻多人，就是說可以怎麼樣回收，所以我們開始就建立了回收表，像我們現在總共累積，應該已經超過100公斤"
回收隱形眼鏡空盒，不只能為環境減輕負擔，還能換來優惠，雙重小確幸！
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