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What do you do with your old glasses when they have grown outdated and the lenses no longer workd for you?
Most people shove them away in the back of a drawer and forget about them or throw them away.
A couple of Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett decided to put some of those old lenses to use…14,000 of them!
They created a large scale instalation named Sea/See/Saw on the front of Istanbul’s Pera Museum overlooking the Bosphorous river.
Thousands of lenses hang and glitter in the sun, reflecting the river water and moving with the breeze.
What a beautiful way to turn trash into art!
We know, you probably won’t turn your glasses into art like this, but you can dig them out of those drawers and give them new life. We collect old glasses and donate them to a great organization called New Eyes for the Needy. They help provide glasses to those less fortunate and keep your old frames out of the landfill.
If you do decide to make art out of your old frames, send it over, we want to see it!
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Now that you have awesome new glasses, what are you going to do with all those old specs?
Whatcha gonna do?!
1) Be a responsible glasses-wearer and keep one pair as a back-up!
2) Bring the rest to Eye Spy!
Eye Spy Optical is sponsoring a campaign to collect used eyeglasses, jewelry, and hearing aids!
The donated glasses and other items will be sent to New Eyes for the Needy, a non-profit volunteer organization whose mission is to improve the vision of poor children, adults and seniors in the United States and throughout the world.
Last year, New Eyes paid for new prescription eyeglasses for 5,945 needy residents of the U.S. In addition, over 200,000 pairs of recycled eyeglasses were sorted, tested and shipped to medical missions and international charitable organizations in 24 developing nations.
For additional information, visit their website at www.neweyesfortheneedy.org. We have a collection box in our store located at 3350 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago
We also have collection boxes at the Lakeview YMCA on Marshfield and at Wishbone at Lincoln and School.
……don’t forget!…….
Stop by Saturday, June 13th for our Sunglass Trunk Show featuring the frames of Persol, Maui Jim, and IC!Berlin! We’ll have a party going from 11-5! Get your Dad a snazzy new pair of UV Blockin’ specs for Father’s day!!!
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