All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 10
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BD8 Ecoplastics of Hong Kong has introduced a new material...
BD8 Ecoplastics of Hong Kong has introduced a new material for eyewear, an eponymous bioplastic that, according to the company, biodegrades entirely into carbon, water and biomass, which are then absorbed by organisms. They can enrich the soil while leaving behind no plastic residue or particles. The stated objective is ...
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EssilorLuxottica entered Fortune magazine's 2019 Change the World List, which...
EssilorLuxottica entered Fortune magazine's 2019 Change the World List, which includes 52 companies that have had a positive social impact through activities that are part of their core business. The Franco-Italian company ranked 17th on the list. Essilor International, part of EssilorLuxottica, has released a new report quantifying the global ...
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Dragon has announced the release of its first eco-friendly eyewear,...
Dragon has announced the release of its first eco-friendly eyewear, based on plant resin. Beginning this autumn, all the new and key carryover injected sunglasses and ophthalmic frames of the performance eyewear brand will be made using the bio-based material. Plant-based resin is derived from castor-bean oil, a renewable alternative ...
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Safilo has announced that starting with the autumn 2019 selling...
Safilo has announced that starting with the autumn 2019 selling season, all globally produced marketing materials at points of purchase, namely counter cards or show cards, will be FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified. Any new printed point of purchase materials produced globally or locally in individual countries will follow the ...
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Eschenbach Optik has recently supported Vision for the World, a...
Eschenbach Optik has recently supported Vision for the World, a non-profit association, by supplying more than 20,000 optical frames. The frames will be donated to children and adults in Nepal. Vision for the World started to donate sunglasses to children and adults in Nepal in 2012. The first corrective frames ...
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Desìo, the brand of color contact lenses produced by the...
Desìo, the brand of color contact lenses produced by the Italian manufacturer Qualimed, is helping to fund Sightsavers, an international NGO founded in 1950 in the U.K. Sightsavers currently operates in more than 30 low- and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia. The charity conducts eye exams and provides treatment ...
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De Rigo Vision, the eyewear firm based in Longarone, in...
De Rigo Vision, the eyewear firm based in Longarone, in Italy's northeast, is introducing a new company program for its staff, called Welfare and Work-Life Balance. The program, which has been designed in consultation with the unions, features a series of initiatives to provide an improved quality of life for ...
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Okia, the eyewear company based in Hong Kong best known...
Okia, the eyewear company based in Hong Kong best known for its patented HDA Technology, has announced the launch of sustainability.okia.com, a website dedicated to its eco-friendly solutions. The website presents in detail the properties and advantages of each sustainable product of the company, alongside facts and figures about worldwide ...
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Waterhaul, a start-up based in Cornwall, England, is introducing a...
Waterhaul, a start-up based in Cornwall, England, is introducing a range of sunglasses that are made from 100 percent recycled ghost fishing nets and gear, taken out of the ocean. Intercepted nets, which may exceed 100 meters in length, are washed, shredded and transformed into pellets, which are then molded ...
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The Etnia Barcelona Foundation has established a partnership with the Von's...
The Etnia Barcelona Foundation has established a partnership with the Von's Vision Foundation to make Etnia the exclusive supplier of fashion frames for Von's Vision Centers. Founded by Von Miller, a linebacker for the Denver Broncos American-football team, Von's Vision Foundation brings vision care and frames to where needy students ...
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Afflelou and Cofidis, a French consumer-credit company that provided tablets...
Afflelou and Cofidis, a French consumer-credit company that provided tablets to the optical group's stores, have partnered with the NGO WeTechCare for the recycling of the no-longer used devices. Afflelou is aiming to collect 700 tablets throughout its stores network, which will then be checked and reinitialized by Cofidis before ...
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The market has apparently rewarded Modo's ecological shift, both for...
The market has apparently rewarded Modo's ecological shift, both for its funding of environmental initiatives and its production processes for eyewear. In India the company helped the Seva Foundation provide eye exams and, if necessary, surgery or therapy for a million children. Modo contributed part of its profits from the ...
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Waterhaul is launching a range of sunglasses made from 100...
Waterhaul is launching a range of sunglasses made from 100 percent recycled fishing nets. Waterhaul is a social enterprise based in Cornwall, England, that collects plastic from the oceans and transforms it into functional products, and is part of a collaborative scheme to intercept nets from European seas. Intercepted nets, ...
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Zeiss and the Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM) have opened a new...
Zeiss and the Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM) have opened a new training center in Pune, India. Recently inaugurated with The Poona Blind Men Association, a local partner, the training center focuses on the operative treatment of cataracts. More than 36 million people worldwide are blind. About one-third of them are blinded ...
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Toms Shoes, the American brand famous for donating a pair of...
Toms Shoes, the American brand famous for donating a pair of shoes or prescription eyeglasses for every pair of shoes or eyeglasses sold, is now one of 2,700 B-Corp companies in 150 industries and 60 countries. So-called B-Corp companies are explicitly committed to sustainability and the common good. Toms Shoes ...
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Essilor will be collaborating with the Royal Government of Bhutan...
Essilor will be collaborating with the Royal Government of Bhutan and the Central Monastic Body to help eradicate uncorrected poor vision in Bhutan. The company will train men and women to become primary vision care providers and micro-entrepreneurs, and will support qualified students to open up optical stores in their ...
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On its second anniversary, a Bausch+Lomb program has managed to...
On its second anniversary, a Bausch+Lomb program has managed to recycle more than five million units of contact lens materials, preventing some 31,000 pounds of waste from entering landfills. The so-called One by One program collects used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils and converts them into post-consumer products, ...
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The OneDollarGlasses association's total revenues increased from €1.7 million in...
The OneDollarGlasses association's total revenues increased from €1.7 million in 2016 to €2.4 million in 2017. Revenues include donations, designated donations, fines and other items. The goal of the association is to provide glasses to 150 million people around the world who live on a dollar or less a day ...
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Discarded used lenses may be contributing to environmental pollution. Researchers...
Discarded used lenses may be contributing to environmental pollution. Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) examined the destiny of 13 contact lens brands made from nine different types of plastic polymers. Lenses that end down the drain are usually conveyed to wastewater treatment facilities. ASU researchers found that wastewater plants ...
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Lunor, the stylish German eyewear brand, has taken many measures...
Lunor, the stylish German eyewear brand, has taken many measures in recent years to reduce its CO² emissions. Since this summer, the company compensates for all of them, cooperating with a German non-governmental organization, Fokus-Zukunft. In order to compensate for the values determined of the so-called CO² footprint, Lunor supports ...
