Glasses

Yes glasses can be reused and recycled.

REUSE
If you have very expensive glasses frames you can sell them on eBay.

RECYCLED
Where?

• The Specky Wren Opticians, 1-2 Marshalls Row, Brighton BN1 4JU. This is next to the entrance to Brighton Open Market at the London Road end. There are 2 collection bins outside, one for glasses and one for sunglasses.
•  Lions Club International and Peep Eye Wear also operate glasses recycling schemes. In both instances you are required to mail your glasses.

How?

• Specky Wren accept any prescription glasses. They do not need the cases. 

DID YOU KNOW?

• Lions Clubs throughout the UK collect unwanted and damaged spectacles. These are then sent to Chichester Lions Club which processes tens of thousands of recycled spectacles each year.

• All donations are examined by a team of Lions and other volunteers in the recycling workshop.Sorted pairs of glasses may then be sent for grading and distribution by Medico France in Le Havre.

• Glasses are also sent directly to contacts running eye clinics in Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, and Nepal. In addition, volunteers from the "Unite for Sight" charity are supplied with spectacles to take with them on missions to countries across the world.