The ACUVUE® Contact Lens Recycle Programme

Recycle your contact lenses, blister packs and foil covers through this programme

Participating locations: 1,260

Waste recycled: 5,391,332

Money raised: £30,414.10

How it works
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Recycling in partnership with ACUVUE®

TerraCycle® and ACUVUE® have partnered to create a free recycling programme for any brand of soft contact lenses and blister packs.

The programme operates through a network of private and public drop-off locations throughout the UK. As an individual, company, charity or school, you can drop off your contact lenses and blister packaging at an existing public drop-off location.

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Drop-off locations

Click on the map for drop-off locations

Find nearest public drop-off location

This map is constantly being updated

You can view all participating public drop-off locations on the interactive map above.

A public drop-off location is a communal collection point where the public can take their TerraCycle® waste for recycling. There is an existing network of over 1000 collection points in Boots Opticians and Independent Optician practices throughout the UK where you can drop off your waste.

If you are part of an Independent Optician practice already signed up to this programme and would like to become a public drop-off location, please contact customersupport@terracycle.co.uk.

How it works

Participating in the programme

Drop your waste off at a public drop-off location, including over 600 Boots Opticians Stores and a network of Independent Opticians throughout the UK. To find your nearest public drop-off location, click here.

At present there are no available spaces on this programme.

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What you can recycle in this programme

Please check out our Accepted Waste Poster below for more details.

What happens to this waste

Once collected, the aggregated contact lenses, blister packaging and outer foils are sorted, shredded and washed. The material is then densified into hard-granulated plastic granules. The granules are then extruded so they can be incorporated into the production of different plastic products such as benches.

Click here to learn more about the recycling process.

Resources

ACUVUE® is partnering with TerraCycle® to offer a national solution for recycling contact lenses, blister packs and foil covers. At Johnson & Johnson Vision, manufacturers of ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses, we know it’s important to create environmentally sustainable products.

Our approach to developing more sustainable products looks at the full life-cycle: from formulation and manufacturing to use and end of life. Our goal is to substantially limit our contribution to landfills through solutions to drive single-use plastic recycling and packaging material optimisation.

Learn more about ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses here.

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