Ophthalmic Optician, Society to Advance Opticianry
We have a person, Carol, who is an expert with a Dremel tool. She makes shamrocks, pumpkins, Christmas trees, animals, etc. with these lenses. She loves to get off-power thick lenses (+10 or higher) because these have extra thickness to be really creative. She drools over aspheric lenticular lenses! :o By combining two or more lenses, she makes hanging things like a star hanging from a sliver moon.
A lions club rep. Told me they do take the old lenses only and turn them in to get cash for the lenses from plastics companys. They take to cash and put it back into the program.
Maybe we could start telling kids to put their old lenses under their pillow at night for the lens fairy to come and swap them out for some cash.
Hello there
i came across your posting 17 years later, first of all, your concern is real and to see you caring about the environment from the danger of plastic back in 2003 is remarkable. People are getting more aware by day about the danger of plastic polluting Our oceans, hopefully opticians will do too. The danger we produce as opticians goes beyond demo lenses, we produce tons of micro plastic beads, less than 1 mm in diameter ever time we cut a lens.
The good news is one company stepped up and created a recycle program for demo and old lenses, the program is called “Kick Plastic” by Costa
You can leaned more about this program from this article at the link below
https://www.eyecarebusiness.com/news...xpands-to-labs
As far as plastic wast from edging machines, I recommend putting it in plastic bag, and put the pag in cardboard box, and throw it in the trash, do not put it in the recycle, they will not recycle it. Try not to get any of the tiny plastic in the water stream, and if your edger is connected to direct water feed, switch to closed water circuit in a picket.
Please do not use any lenses as ornaments, it is a fire hazardous.
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