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Happy Earth Day!
A couple of years ago Vision-Ease Lens made a major announcement that their manufacturing was switching to 100% renewable energy. This was before ‘eco-friendly’ optical was becoming a hot trend. Back in 2008, hardly anyone was even thinking about renewable energy, not many people even considered their carbon footprint, but Vision-Ease bucked the ‘eye rolling’ and went forward to become I would consider the first sustainable lens manufacturer in the USA.
Manufacturing can be costly and toxic to the environment, depending on chemicals and materials used. (Think steel mils, coal and clouds of toxic chemicals in the air, or think Erin Brockovich) Just by implementing and using renewable energy, Vision-Ease Lens lowers their impact on the environment, saving thousands of CO2 emissions a year- better for you, your children and grandchildren.
The added benefit by doing this and other recycling programs, Vision-Ease Lens is reducing our dependency on oil. Good for you and the environment.
- By eliminating extra product shipments for manufacturing, VEL saved more than 12,500 gallons of gas in 2006 by producing its proprietary, LifeRx™ photochromic lenses in one facility. This has also saved 113 metric tons of CO2 emissions – equivalent to the electricity for 15 homes for one year
- And by replacing all lighting in the Ramsey facility with energy efficient fluorescent lighting, savings have reached near 800 metric tons of CO2 emissions since the conversion in January 2007.
- By switching to renewable power, we will avoid the release of more than 15,000 metric tons of carbon emissions each year. This saving is equivalent to the emissions that result from burning more than one and three-quarter million gallons of gasoline.
I have been impressed since 2008 with Vision-Ease with their environmental commitment, their far-thinking initiatives, their willingness to make the eco investment not just for you the eyecare practitioner, but for your friends, families and patients. Kudos to Vision-Ease and may others follow in their footsteps.
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They are neighbours of ours here in Minnesota. I knew they were doing good things, I just didn’t know about all of them.
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This week we are changing all of our spot/flood lights to the flourescent energy savings bulbs. Sampled one, they are fine.
Together, we’re changing the world. Happy Earth Day
We are cleaning the park/woods nearby. Happy Earth Day
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We are having a glasses recycling day
I think these products are great and we should all have them available to our patients and customers.
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Cardboard recycling – amazing how fast it all adds up. Everyone doing their share.
We changed from plastic surgical bags to ones made of recycled materials. Be kind to our planet!
We have joined the ECO movement eyewear line to make a difference for our earth. I am impressed and excited with ECO’s return policy by means of helping others who may not be able to afford eyewear,This way we are helping the needy while perserving our earth. With so many pepole having sensitive skin many are willing not because of the price point, but because of the quality of the product to purchase with ease. Thanks
We are celebrating my husband’s birthday.
We have recycle containers at every workstation as well as shredders so that all paper is recycled.
Slowly but surely we are going paperless. Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! Today should be the start of everyone making an effort to recycle and do their part to help! One person can make such an impact, really! I’m loving the eco eyewear as well!!
Doing a lot more walking to and from offices, and leaving messages for staff, colleagues via the computer rather than via pen and paper.
I sell the dickens out of polycarb lenses. Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day. We are using only the energy savings light bulbs at home. Recycling anything that we are able to.
Hats off to Vision-Ease on taking a leadership role in renewable energy and minimizing the enviromental impact of lens manufacturing.
We recycle paper and plastic products and use biodegradable foam for shipping.
Also we take our boxes to a UPS shipping center and they reuse them to ship customers shipments.
Our office has installed timers on all of our outside signs,turn off lights in each unused office / areas. We also unplug all items before we leave office overnite.we use all old paper for scratch pads, and take all boxes that are shipped to us to recycle center along w/other items we save for each trip eileen
I received a call last month by local media asking about environmentally friendly and sustainable eye care products. Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! Patients really are looking for sustainable products so its exciting to see vendors respond to this. We actually have requested contact lens vendors to limit their overzealous packaging of material/contact trials in lieu of sending at all.
We recycle plastic bags from frame shipments.
FOR EARTH DAY I AM GOING TO MY SONS SCIENCE FAIR TONIGHT AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CONCAVE VS CONVEX LENSES. WE ARE ALSO GOING TO PLANT A PINE TREE IN THE BACK YARD.
ATTACH RAIN BARRELS TO YOUR HOUSE/OFFICE. USE IT TO WATER GARDENS AND HOUSE PLANTS.
We reuse-recycle what we can and have changed all the lights in our shop to energy efficient ones! Happy Earth Day every day!
recycling paper and cardboard, glass and plastic. We now have separate garbage cans in each room.
Happy Earth Day, le’t help to save the world!
To help the environment we signed up with UPS to reduce are carbon footprint. How we did this is by paying a few cents extra per shipment UPS will plant trees, and do other things to make our shipments “carbon neutral”. Meaning for all the fuel we burn, and CO2 we emmit, we balance by planting trees, and recylcling, and funding programs to help the environment. Thanks
RJ Smart
Great idea, I didn’t know you could do that. – and me the TreeHugger!
That is a great idea!
Shirley has rain barrels all over her house, I have yet to do that, but I put out buckets whenever it rains.
Good for you! Packaging is a terrible use resources and you actually pay for it, called hidden costs!
Great- you guys are on it!
I didn’t know UPS took back the peanuts and foam, I know mailbox station does.
Good for you- It took me about 5 years to get the job done, and I am much happier!
Happy Earth Day
We have gone to EMR’s and we also email patients their New Patient forms to save paper.
I bring home paper and cardboard from the office to put into my home recycle bin, so that it doesn’t get tossed into the solid waste commercial trash.
We will have to follow!
My husband and I are opening a bicycle rental shop so our little tourist town can offer a green way to get around.
Happy Earth Day!
Emerald Eyes Goes Green! We have recently added the ECO Line of frames by Modo to add to our energy conscience office. The frames are made of 95% recycled materials. In addition we added solar panels which cover 1/2 the entire roof of the building (the sunnier side) to help conserve energy. We have changed most of all of our light bulbs in the office to fluorescent to project more efficient cost effective lighting. We recycle all cardboard boxes.
Our Optical Department returns envelopes, lens envelopes and packing supplies to our lab to re-use. it keep thir costs down while helping the Earth.
We have been on electronic medical records for years. We also try to minimize printing anything, unless absolutely necessary.
We have a lightless display case and we have it aligned under our tract lighting. We save on energy and make the case useful!