A North-Ayrshire practice has contributed to recycling more than 50 tonnes of spectacles and eye care materials, as part of an initiative between Specsavers and recycling company Mygroup.
The equivalent of more than one million pairs of unwanted spectacles have been donated to practices across the UK, since the initiative launched in August 2022.
‘A big thank you to everyone who has helped us with this recycling initiative by bringing in their eye care products for disposal,’ said Chris McGowan, store director at Specsavers in Largs.
‘To have also contributed to such a huge overall total is brilliant and we want to continue to recycle as much as we can to help reduce the amount of waste to landfill.’
Once full, items from practice collection bins are shipped to Mygroup’s recycling plant in Hull where they are repurposed into furniture, home and garden accessories, benches and play park equipment.
Everything created by Mygroup has the potential to be recycled again and again so that items dropped off for recycling can be repurposed many times.