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Recycled Materials

Used or scrapped materials are reused to create a new pair of sunglasses to extend the circular lifetime of waste materials that would have been thrown away (e.g., plastic bottles, scrap wood).

ICU Eyewear

Silver Medal for Give Back

Fashionable reading glasses, not just for the stodgy and old, made with recycled materials

Solo Eyewear

Silver Medal for Social Good

Offering great sustainablly made sunglasses that also works to improve preventable blindness

Norton Point Sunglasses

Silver Medal for Give Back

Buy One Give One

Trying to show their impact, these brands will donate a pair to someone who needs it for every pair purchased.

Warby Parker

Gold Medal for Give Back

Started by 4 people graduate students out to disrupt the glasses conglomerate who overcharged and didn't give back, to offer instead design and a mission to give vision to ones without access

Forest Stewardship Council

FSC promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s virgin forests.

Woodsi

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Bamboo

Bamboo can be a better alternative to using virgin wood because it’s fast growing and renewable.

Panda Eyewear

Gold Medal for Give Back

Sustainable bamboo sunglasses to fuel our love of shades and green, green forests

ICU Eyewear

Silver Medal for Give Back

Fashionable reading glasses, not just for the stodgy and old, made with recycled materials

Prevent Wasteful Sunglasses

Sunglasses protect our eyes from UV rays and reduce the risk of cataracts. They also protect the tender skin around our eyes from sun exposure. In 2012, approximately 95 million sunglasses were sold in the United States. If these were all made of plastic, then that would mean near 800 million pounds of plastic would be thrown away once the sunglasses are done being worn. These plastic sunglasses are not biodegradable and would just accumulate as plastic waste for near 500+ years. That’s just one year’s worth of sunglasses purchased. Now, imagine if all sunglasses were made of biodegradable and renewable materials? Bamboo, recycled, and FSC wood, anyone?