All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 4
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News briefsUS designer eyewear collective donates over $50,000 through Pride Eyewear program
Five US designer eyewear companies in the CFDA collective – Blake Kuwahara Eyewear, Christian Roth Eyewear, Krewe, l.a. Eyeworks and Selima Optique – have donated $53,600 to the TransLatin@ Coalition, a service and advocacy organization supporting the transgender, gender-nonconforming and intersex community. The funds derive from sales of limited editions ...
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E.U. tightens rules on CO2 offsetting-based sustainability claims
After months of negotiations, members of the European parliament have officially approved a new directive that will effectively restrict the use of certain terms frequently used by companies in their sustainability claims from 2026. In particular, the European Union is taking aim at the use of such wordings as “climate ...
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News briefsNew Salmoiraghi & Viganò store highlights Essilux retail sustainability program
EssilorLuxottica has announced that its new Salmoiraghi & Viganò store opened in Milan at the end of last year was being considered for the WELL certification, a standard that “creates and certifies spaces that advance human health and well-being” according to the organization’s website. The new shop, located in the ...
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South Korean e-commerce giant takes over Farftech
Coupang, the South Korean-based e-commerce group, has annoucend that it was taking over the business of Farftech, investing $500 million in the struggling luxury online retail platform. The cash injection will enable Farftech to clear its debts and continue its operations. The company, which is currently valued at around $200 ...
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ArticleKarün Eyewear to get a Walmart boost
Karün Eyewear, the Chile-based brand of eyewear made from recycled and traceable materials, has signed a nationwide, but non-exclusive, partnership with Walmart for the distribution of its frames in the U.S. retail giant’s Walmart Vision Centers. ”We chose to work with Walmart as our U.S. national retailer to expand access ...
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Marcolin adds women-focused session to leadership program
Marcolin has announced that its “Leadership Academy” training program for future leaders, which was launched in 2021, would include for the first time this year soft skills enhancement modules dedicated to women leadership. The group said that this was aimed at training future managers to guide and inspire others based ...
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First eyewear sustainability congress held in France
Recycloptics, a French non-profit organization collecting and recycling wastes from optical shops, organized earlier on Oct. 6 the first congress specifically dedicated to sustainability in the eyewear sector. C.O.L.D., which stands for Congrès de l’Optique-Lunetterie Durable (Eyewear Sustainability Congress), took place in Dourdan, near Paris, and gathered a total of ...
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News briefsContact-lens disposal explained in pictures
Canada’s Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) has expanded on a set of infographics it produced earlier this year to lay out the proper disposal and recycling of contact lenses. The original set of four, in English, has now been translated in 24 other languages – among them Afrikaans, ...
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News briefsMister Spex wins German Sustainability Award
Mister Spex has announced that it has won the German Sustainability Award in the “Pharmacies and Medical Retail” sector. The award is organized by the German Sustainability Award Foundation (Stiftung Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitpreis) in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. ...
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CooperVision gets LEED Gold certificate for Puerto Rico factory
CooperVision has announced that its contact lens factory in Puerto Rico has seen its LEED Silver certification upgraded to the LEED Gold level. The 540,000 square meter plant where the company produces its MyDay and Biofinity products is the second CooperVision manufacturing facility to be certified LEED Gold, after the ...
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Nexeye launching recycled house brand
Benelux retail group Nexeye is launching Ciircle, a new acetate-based eyewear brand made from old glasses and residual waste from production at one of its suppliers’ factory. The group will roll out the collection, which includes 9 unisex designs available in a total of 23 colors, in all its Hans ...
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Mondottica partners with Sedex on responsible sourcing
Mondottica Group has announced that it was joining Sedex as part of its social and environmental sustainability program. Based in London, Sedex specializes in responsible sourcing and provides its clients with tools, technology and insights needed to operate ethically, source responsibly and work with suppliers to protect people and the ...
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News briefsStrong children myopia increase in Spain, research finds
A fifth of Spain’s schoolchildren suffer from myopia, whose incidence over the past six years has increased by 17.8 percent. So says this year’s edition of the “Barometer of Myopia in Spain,” a report put out by the Alain Afflelou Foundation and Madrid’s Complutense University. Myopia is most prevalent (30%) ...
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Gibaplast adopts Eastman Tenite Renew
Gibaplast, the Italian-based supplier of cellulose esters and other materials for the eyewear industry, has adopted Eastman’s Tenite Renew material, the U.S. specialty materials manufacturer has announced. Tenite Renew is a more sustainable version of the company’s Tenite cellulose acetate propionate that is widely used in the production of injection ...
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Silhouette eyes carbon neutrality without offsetting
In 2022, the Silhouette Group became a certified carbon-neutral organization, through a combination of emissions’ reductions – which were halved to 2,000 tons annually in the last seven years – and the purchase of carbon credits for the support of a 400 MW solar panel system in India. The Austrian-based ...
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Kering Eyewear gathers supply chain partners for Sustainability Day
Kering Eyewear gathered its key Italian supply chain partners at its headquarters in Padua on Sept. 5 for its Sustainability Day. The event included a workshop by Anna Zandanel, a sustainability and innovation business advisor who shared information on circular economy practices in the eyewear industry with the 40 attendees. ...
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HOYA Vision Care launches sustainability program
HOYA Vision Care has announced the launch of One Vision, its corporate sustainability program based on three pillars: environment, community and workplace. On the environmental front, the company’s initiatives focus on CO2 emission reduction – with a goal to reach 100 percent renewable electricity by 2040 at the latest ...
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Kering Eyewear to Maui support fund after wildfires
Kering Eyewear, owner of the Hawaian brand Maui Jim, has announced that it was making a donation to Hawaii Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund, to assist the victims and support the rebuilding efforts followig the devastating wildfires in Lahaina earlier this month. Maui Jim, which has a local store and ...
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A glimpse of the state of sustainability in U.S. eyecare
There was a slight decline over the course of 2022 in the importance of having a “green” practice for U.S. eyecare professionals, at least according to the Environmental Sustainability Survey conducted by Jobson Optical Research on behalf of 20/20. In February 2020, November 2021 and August 2022, only 1 percent ...
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ArticleSilmo Paris adds CSR prize to events portfolio
The organizers of the Silmo trade show have announced the launch of a Responsible Company Prize, that will take place for the first time at the next edition of the show slated to take place at the usual fairgrounds in the north of Paris from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. ...
