​RecycLine offer spectacle recycling for the optical industry. We recover and reuse all plastic and metals, with zero waste. We are proud to say that since we took over and became the only recyclers of waste frames in the UK we have successfully diverted more than 500 tonnes of this waste away from landfill sites and back into the circular economy. That would have been a staggering amount of waste, equal to around 20 million individual pairs of glasses, or the equivalent of approximately 600 medium sized vans loaded to the roof, and all just dropped into UK soil. We’re happy to say that has been avoided.

Recycline’s bespoke approach to the optical waste problem from day one has been to separate the mixed plastics and metals, allowing the individual materials to be put back into industry as a raw material rather than go to landfill, or more worryingly polluting our waterways, oceans and seas and becoming a burden on the environment.

It was thanks to the environmental conscientiousness of Vision Aid Overseas, (VAO) a charitable organisation that we used to work alongside, who requested that a sustainable solution was created for this waste. We developed a bespoke solution that is still to this day one of a kind, not just in the UK, but globally.

The process we use to separate and recover the materials was designed in house and is reportedly the only operation of its kind in the world, which has given us opportunities to receive frames from the UK, as well as Europe and beyond, to process with our state-of-the-art technologies. And the operation is funded entirely by the sale of the recovered materials, allowing us to donate a proportion of profits to charities to help with local and international causes.