We care about sustainability and here are some of our methods:
- Supplying hight quality spectacles, made to last,
- Repairing spectacles when possible,
- Using local trades people to improve, maintain & decorate,
- Employing staff who live locally
- Recycling contact lens packaging
- Diligent recycyling of paper and packaging
- Computorised record keeping to minimise using use of paper
- Encouraging re-use of old spectacles….
Spectacle recycling
We collect and recycle your used spectacles in cooperation with Lions International. These will help children and adults in developing countries to enjoy a better quality of life, including Brazil, Kenya, Uganda, Nepal, Ethiopia, Jordan, Cuba, Mongolia, Peru and Rwanda. Many will experience corrected vision for the first time, enabling them to read, attend school, gain employment and take care of their families. Some spectacles are traded and any donations received from this are used in other Sight Projects across the world.
Please feel free to call in to drop off any used spectacles or contact lens packaging.
Vision Action
Dunstone Optometry has had a longstanding relationship with Vision Action (previously called Vision Aid Overseas) involving spectacle recycling. Derek has provided voluntary eye care in Uganda with VAO and the Practice has funded trainees to travel to Africa to carry out this work. Thank you to everyone who has donated used spectacles over the last 30 years. It is estimated that more than twenty thousand pairs have been collected at Dunstone Optometry during this time and forwarded for use in Africa.
Vision Aid no longer requires used spectacles, but rather donations towards new spectacle provision for Africa. We continue to support this splendid charity and keep a cash collection box in reception. Click here for more information about Vision Action.
