OPTICAL PRISM | VISION & VOICE
How can eye care professionals reduce their carbon footprint ?
Encourage your patients to donate their old eyeglasses to Canadian Lions eyeglass recycling centre .
One way you could help reduce waste is to encourage your patients to donate their old eyeglasses to Canadian Lions eyeglass recycling centre or , better yet , become one of the many participating collection locations . With 290 million contact lenses ending up in our landfill every year , Bausch + Lomb has launched their contact lens recycling program . It ’ s never too late to encourage your patients to start reducing their carbon footprint .”
DEBORAH WONG , Green Calgary
“ Climate change is a collective challenge and we need to rise to meet it together . That means reducing your workplace ’ s footprint through energy-efficient technology like LED lighting . It means moving appliances that run on gas ( like furnaces and water heaters ) over to electric power when they come to their end-of-life . It means carpooling with colleagues . And it means having conversations about all of this with your employees .“
KEITH BROOKS , Programs director at Environmental Defence .
“ One simple way to create an environmentally friendly practice is to important to share your eco-con-
changes have a big impact . It ’ s also
make daily changes to reduce plastic scious ideas with patients – let them consumption : from providing reusable cups and utensils to switching to packaging can be recycled and pro-
know that contact lens material and
paper bags over plastic . These small vide instructions on how to do so .” BRIDGITTE SHEN LEE , Optometrist and medical advisor to The Vision Council .
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