In Focus: Joint effort on going green

A consortium of optical bodies has joined forces under the campaign banner ‘Thinking Green,’ in an effort to help cut carbon emissions and waste as well as establish sustainable practices to meet the UK’s climate change targets.

Members of the cross-sector group have agreed to implement changes based on two key areas – workplace change and single use plastic reduction – ahead of the next group meeting in late May. Each organisation will share a review of impacts, lessons learned and ideas for improved practices, said the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO).

ABDO said sustainability across the optical profession and industry was something we could only achieve by collaboration and doing so would facilitate mutual understanding of practitioner and manufacturer perspectives, such as what is involved in making supply chains more sustainable. It was hoped that the joint project would allow the group to measure progress across the sector as it develops.