View from the BCLA: Recycling drive

There’s a multitude of contact lenses out there, daily disposables, sclerals, RGPs, silicone hydrogels to name a few, but there’s one word that’s frequently missing from the packaging of all lenses. Recyclable.

At a time when the world is seemingly paying more attention to the environment than ever before and the ‘Save the Planet’ mantra is gathering momentum by the day, what can the contact lens profession do to play its part in helping us to ‘go green’?

We have recently seen national media coverage of stories highlighting the volume of lenses that get flushed down the loo, adding to the mountain of single-use plastic clogging up our oceans.