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Contact Lenses Are Polluting The Ocean — Here’s How To Actually Recycle Them (Spoiler: It’s Not Easy)

Summer 2018 will go down as the summer we said goodbye to unnecessary plastic waste. Starbucks committed to eliminating plastic straws in all locations by 2020, IKEA banned all single-use plastics from its stores, and entire cities (like Seattle) banned the use of plastic bags … Continue Reading

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Millions of Contact Lenses are Ending Up in the Water

(CBS News) - Some 45 million Americans wear contact lenses. Of them, 15 million wear daily disposables — soft plastic discs that are worn once and thrown away… Bausch & Lomb has a recycling program for its Biotrue line, which took in 1.9 million … Continue Reading

---historical reference--- · Aug 23, 2018

Millions of used contact lenses flushed away into food chain

Now, a trio of researchers has done a first study on what happens to these lenses after they leave our eyes… Bausch & Lomb has a recycling program for its Biotrue line, which took in 1.9 million contacts last year, according its recycling … Continue Reading

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100,000 contact lenses recycled in one year

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PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION

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L’Occitane reinterprets traditional flagship-store idea with new experiential retail concept

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NOW Launches Free Flexible Packaging Recycling Program Through TerraCycle

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

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Millions of contact lenses are ending up in the water

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

---historical reference--- · Aug 20, 2018