What Do I Do With My Old Prescription Glasses, After All, They’re Still Good

As we get older, our eyes change and as our eyes change, so do our prescriptions. This leaves us with perfectly good pairs of glasses that we no longer need. We may have literally paid hundreds of dollars for them, however they have become trash to us and they either just sit in a drawer or they may even go right into the trash.

Some places like Goodwill may take the glasses but they in all likelihood have more glasses than they know what to do with already and are not all that terribly interested in taking yours. So now what do you do? One thing that most people never consider is the different charity clubs such as Lions and Rotary.

Lions Club International has a program specifically for recycling old prescription glasses for children and adults alike. They work in partnership with readingglasses.com in order to distribute the glasses throughout the world. If you have a lot of old glasses, and the lenses are in good shape, these are the people you want to talk to. Even if the frames are not in good shape, they can take the good lenses and put them into useable frames and then redistribute them. This way your perfectly good glasses don’t end up sitting in a land fill for long after you and I both have left this world.