Friday, May 04, 2012

Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste of Money

Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste of Money - Bloomberg
In a paper published in March in the journal Optometry andVision Science, four researchers compare the full costs ofdelivering used glasses to the costs of instead deliveringready-made glasses in standard powers (like my drugstorereaders, but for myopia as well).
The authors find that recycledglasses cost nearly twice as much per usable pair.

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