All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 3
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Essilux partners with WHO on eyecare program
EssilorLuxottica has announced that its OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation has become a global collaborating partner of SPECS 2030, an eye care program by the World Health Organization (WH0). The SPECS initative focuses on five pillars: improving access to refractive services, building the capacity of eye care professionals, promoting eye health awareness, ...
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Article‘We try to be responsible’
Alessandra Girardi, head of sustainability and co-owner of Vanni, tells us about how the Italian SME’s sustainability approach is rooted in local production and supply chain, internal commitment and outside expertise, and LCA calculations.
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News briefsCanada to develop a national strategy for eyecare
Canada has passed Bill C-284, “an act to establish a national strategy for eye care.” This strategy, to be devised by the Ministry of Health, must “describe the various forms of eye disease.” It may do any of the following: lay out the needs of healthcare and other professionals with ...
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Visottica publishes first sustainability report
Eyewear parts manufacturer Visottica Group has announced the release of its first sustainability report which the company says is the first in the eyewear components sector to anticipate the European Union’s CSRD reporting requirements for large companies. The report concludes a two-year analysis of the company’s sustainability practices, conducted in ...
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News briefsVision Council, EyeMed promote eye health
The Vision Council Foundation and EyeMed Vision Care, an American company owned by EssilorLuxottica and dealing in managed vision benefits, are undertaking a joint publicity campaign around “overall eye health.” They will be publishing a series of “curated vision health and wellness articles” and “interactive vision guides” as well as ...
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New York-based Mount Sinai receives $5 m gift for ophthalmic AI research
The Icahn School of Medicine, an entity of the large New York-based Mount Sinai healthcare group, has announced that it has received a $5 million gift from the John and Darria Barry Foundation for its Center for Ophthalmic Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Health. The center, which was ...
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Low vision/blindness tech company partners with Microsoft on AI training
Be My Eyes, a tech company connecting the blind and low-vision community with volunteers for smartphone-based live visual assistance, is partnering with Microsoft for the training of more inclusive AI models.
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Eco Eyewear wins trademark dispute
Modo Eyewear, owner of the Eco Eyewear brand, has announced that the European IP Office has upheld its objections and rejected the trademark application made by Eyespace Eyewear for the “Eco Conscious Optics” trademarking. The office considered that there was a likelihood of consumer confusion with the “ECO EARTH CONSCIOUS ...
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Marcolin joins the United Nations Global Compact
Marcolin has announced that is has joined the United Nations Global Compact, a program launched in 2000 by the international organization in order to mobilize companies to align their strategies and operations with its ten universal principles on human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption, and to promote actions aimed ...
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Vanni measures carbon footprint
The Italian eyewear company Vanni S.r.l. Società Benefit has measured the carbon footprint of its glasses through a life cycle assessment (LCA) carried out together with the Bicocca University of Milan and Liito, an Italian sustainability consultancy. According to the LCA, Vanni’s V1632 acetate glasses, which are considered to be ...
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EssilorLuxottica to build and manage own solar farm at Barberini's plant
EssilorLuxottica is converting almost 40 hectares of industrial land surrounding its Barberini plant, located near Pescara, Italy, into a large solar farm and natural food crops for its staff restaurants. The solar farm alone will cover a surface of 25 hectares and is the first large-scale ground-mounted photovolatic system built ...
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Warby Parker and Eastman recycled 12 tons of demo lenses in 2023
US optical retailer Warby Parker has announced in its Impact Report 2023 that over 12 tons of demo lenses from its Sloatsburg and Las Vegas labs were collected and recycled through its partnership with Eastman Chemical, marking a significant increase from 2022 (9 tons). In other highlights of its sustainability ...
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Bausch + Lomb’s US recycling programs gather momentum
Bausch + Lomb has annonced that it has collected 84 million units of contact lenses, lens care and eye care materials in the US through its ONE by ONE and Biotrue recycling programs since they were launched in 2016 and 2021, respectively. This corresponds to approximately 231 tons of waste ...
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ArticleUS startup picks eyewear market as launch pad for infinitely recyclable plastic material
As the world is grappling with an ever-growing amount of plastic waste, of which less than 10 percent is being recycled, our attention was brought to a California-based chemical start-up that claims it can produce an infinitely recyclable alternative material to high performance plastics. And, somewhat surprisingly for such a ...
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News briefsPush for world CL day in its second year
The Spain’s Association for the Manufacture, Commercialization and General Import of Optics and Ophthalmology (AEO) and Fórum de Contactología are striving to get April 15 declared world contact-lens day – in honor of the invention’s precursor, Leonardo da Vinci. This is a Spanish initiative in its second year. So far ...
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ArticleStudy suggests readers could ease poverty
The American journal Plos One has published a study concluding that the “provision of reading glasses increases income in near vision-intensive occupations, and may facilitate return to work for those currently unemployed.” The study was conducted in Bangladesh among presbyopic men and women aged 35 to 65, about half of ...
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News briefsWCO dispatching myopia ambassadors
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has appointed four ambassadors to spread the gospel of its myopia-management standard of care resolution. Developed with CooperVision and introduced in April 2021, the resolution prescribes mitigation, measurement and management. The four ambassadors are: Nicola Logan, Jagrut Lallu, Síofra Harrington and Ashley Wallace Tucker. ...
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ArticleMazzucchelli takes further steps on sustainability journey
Mazzucchelli 1849 is building a new factory in its hometown of Castiglione Olona in northern Italy, set to be opened in the second half of this year. Giampietro Pedrazzini, CEO, spoke to us recently about how that facility fits into Mazzucchelli’s plans to reduce its environmental footprint, along with other ...
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Karün Eyewear and partner to turn cigarette butts into eyewear frames
Karün Eyewear, the Patagonia-based eyewear brand, announced at the recent Mido show in Milan that it would soon launch eyewear frames made from Celion, a new cellulose acetate material recycled from cigarette butts. Celion is supplied by IMEKO, also a Chilean-based and certified B Corporation, which collects and chemically processes ...
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Safilo emissions reduction targets approved by SBTi
Safilo Group has announced that its near-term science-based sustainability targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI). The organization is a partnership between Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). According to its ...
