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Kick VIC • Posts: 540

1 22 Jun 2011

Happy Wednesday guys,

If you�re anything like me and seem to be losing your eyesight by the minute, you probably have a lot of spare glasses hiding around your house because your prescription changed. If so, then you can send them reply paid to these guys:

PersonalEYES Donate Glasses
Reply Paid 301
PARRAMATTA NSW 2124

And they will forward them onto those who are vision impaired and living in developing countries.

Now, I�ve read a few articles on the net about how it�s probably more cost effective to be just sending new glasses to the country directly from the manufacturers but hey, I believe in recycling and I�ll let someone bigger than me decide what�s best to do with them.

It is estimated that there are about 250 million people who are needing glasses right now, so wrap your old ones up in a padded bag and toddle on down to the post office.

cool

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Milo VIC • Posts: 31

2 22 Jun 2011

Thank you so much for this.

Nobody QLD • Posts: 593

3 22 Jun 2011

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this info.
I've always felt bad about throwing away my old prescription glasses, but I never knew what to do with them.

Kick VIC • Posts: 540

4 22 Jun 2011

Dark Cherry said:

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this info.
I've always felt bad about throwing away my old prescription glasses, but I never knew what to do with them.

That's okay. I know what you mean, its such a shame that these programs aren't promoted more publicly. There should be a system set up much like donating your old mobile/charger at the post office and phone dealers.

rottweiler SA • Posts: 1907

5 22 Jun 2011

Kick said:

Dark Cherry said:

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this info.
I've always felt bad about throwing away my old prescription glasses, but I never knew what to do with them.

That's okay. I know what you mean, its such a shame that these programs aren't promoted more publicly. There should be a system set up much like donate your old mobile/charger at the post office and phone dealers.

At all the All Phones ive been too, they have drop off boxes and stuff to recycle phones and stuff- not to donate, but it recycles them...

Kick VIC • Posts: 540

6 22 Jun 2011

Yep. That is the program.

rottweiler SA • Posts: 1907

7 22 Jun 2011

Oh okay. Well then there is?

Beemo United States • Posts: 1259

8 22 Jun 2011

I have seen a box at my grandma's nursing home where you can put your old glasses to donate to people living in developing countries. It's a great idea, especially since the old people at the nursing home would go through glasses constantly since their eye sight is depleting fast.

Kick VIC • Posts: 540

9 22 Jun 2011

rottweiler said:

Oh okay. Well then there is?

I know.. That was what I was talking about.

Abbiesaurus said:

Ooh. I should move into one. Plus, they have pudding. happy

I knew that they had to exist somewhere because I had seen similar flyers for donating your old/ill-fitting bras (which is a brillant idea) so it would only make sense to have one for prescription glasses. I wonder if a lot of nursing homes have these?

I was reading something that was complaining about the system because essentially the countries would just be sent a big box of glasses and the chances of finding a pair that were suitable for your eyes was low and therefore not worth the cost of having to send them there. All in all though, it didn't really offer any solutions on how to fix that but was just having a whinge.