Flushing your contact lenses down the drain is adding plastic waste to oceans

For its programme, Bausch + Lomb partners with a company called TerraCycle that specialises in recycling smaller items that wouldn't normally get separated in the standard process. The issue with lenses is to deal with not only them but their packaging made up of foil and plastic, which has to be separated in order to go to recycling plants, said Rick Zultner, director of process and product development for TerraCycle.