All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 7
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Warby Parker has donated its millionth pair of glasses
Warby Parker says it has distributed more than a million pairs of glasses free of charge to the needy. The direct-to-consumer (DTC) specialist has accomplished this through a program, called “Buy a Pair, Give a Pair,” established at the same time as the company itself. In short, every pair purchased ...
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VSP Global extends partnership with blindness charity
VSP Global has renewed its partnership with the non-profit organization Prevent Blindness, on which it is bestowing a grant of $125,000. Through its own charity, VSP Eyes of Hope, the company will in addition be making other, in-kind contributions worth “up to $1.5 million.” VSP Eyes of Hope was founded ...
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ArticleEastman’s new French plastics recycling project will apply to eyewear, too
French President Emmanuel Macron and Mark Costa, Eastman Chemical Company’s board chairman and CEO, jointly announced last month that the U.S.-based specialty materials company plans to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France that would become operational by 2025. The facility would use Eastman’s ...
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Optic 2000’s HQ is going geothermal
In March, the Optic 2000 group will begin drilling a 200 meter shaft beneath its headquarters, which occupies some 12,000 square meters in the Parisian suburb of Clamart and employs some 450 people. This is the first stage in a project to shift the optical group away from carbon-based heating ...
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OKIA exceeds PET-recycling goal
OKIA – the self-described “integrated eyewear service provider focusing on design, latest materials and technology development, production and logistics services,” with headquarters in Hong Kong – launched the “One Million Bottle Challenge” in 2019. The objective was to use the plastic of one million recycled PET bottles to manufacture eyeglass ...
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Eastman ranked among top U.S. companies for ESG
Eastman has entered the Just 100, a ranking of companies by environmental, social and corporate (ESG) governance as determined by the non-profit organization Just Capital and the news network CNBC. To establish the list, Just Capital took the largest 954 American companies in the Russell 1000 Index and evaluated them ...
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ArticleCarbon-neutral Icare Group gets EcoVadis silver
Icare Group, the OEM eyewear supplier, announced a few weeks ago that it had received a silver rating from EcoVadis, one of the global leading platforms in environmental and ethical certifications for global supply chains. The company said that, with this new CSR achievement, it ranked in the top 25 ...
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Vanni Eyewear becomes a Benefit Corporation
Vanni Eyewear, the Italian eyewear company behind the Vanni and Derapage brands, has announced that it was changing its name to Vanni S.r.l. Società Benefit. The move follows the decision of Vanni’s owners, Giovanni Vitaloni, also president of Mido and Anfao, and Alessandra Girardi, to turn the company into a ...
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Afflelou wins CSR prize from Spanish chamber of commerce
In recognition of its efforts in sustainability and corporate social responsibility, Afflelou Group has received the COCEF prize from the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France (itself called the COCEF, for short). Over the past year, the French optical firm has produced more than 100,000 sustainable frames through its MAGIC ...
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Maui Jim is donating to Maui’s charities
Maui Jim is once again making donations to charities on its home island of Maui, in the state of Hawaii. So far this year, it says, the brand has made about $260,000 in such donations to support such causes as the arts, elderly care and family services. Recipients include Hale ...
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Safilo extends Special Olympics parnership
Safilo Group renewed until 2024 its partnership with Special Olympics, an international non-profit organization dedicated to helping people with intellectual disabilities. Since the partnership started in 2003, Safilo has donated over 1.3 million frames and sunglasses to Special Olympics athletes across the world, as part of the Opening Eye program ...
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Essilux joins ESSEC’s Global Circular Economy Chair
EssilorLuxottica has announced that it was one of the founding partners in the launch of ESSEC Business School’s Global Circular Economy Chair, a program aimed at training 120 future circular economy managers. L’Oréal and Bouygues, a diversified group with construction and media businesses, are also supporting the new Chair that ...
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Mondottica joins UN Global Compact
Mondottica has signed up for the United Nations Global Compact and the UN Global Compact Network UK. The former boasts 14,670 companies, 162 countries and 85,707 “public reports.” Its members pledge to abide by ten principles in matters of human rights, labor (slaves, children, discrimination), the environment and the elimination ...
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VSP signs multi-year partnership with eyecare non-profit
VSP Global has established a multi-year partnership with Black EyeCare Perspective, a non-profit organization whose stated goals are to “increase the number of Black leaders addressing the biases in the eyecare industry,” “help eyecare professionals and companies stay effective and relevant in a forever changing landscape by aligning their values ...
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ArticleKering Eyewear banks on blockchain for supply chain sustainability
Kering Eyewear is launching a blockchain-based sustainable initiative in order to measure the overall impact of its finished products through a collaborative platform involving the suppliers at all levels of its entire value chain. Called V.I.R.T.U.S., an acronym standing for Verified, Integrated, Reliable, Trustworthy and Secure, is being described by ...
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New recycling initiative in France for optical wastes
Optic For Good, a French sustainability label and consultancy focusing on the eyewear industry, is launching Recycloptics, a non-profit organization that will collect and recycle wastes from the sector, in particular from optical shops, Opticien Presse reports. The association estimates that 78 tons of demo lenses are going to landfill ...
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B+L has recycled more than 41 million contact lenses
Bausch + Lomb (B+L) says that its “One by One” and “Biotrue Eye Care Recycling” programs have processed 41,358,603 units, or 248,516 pounds, of used contact lenses and other eye- and lens-care materials. One by One deals with contact lenses, which are typically too small for standard recyclers to handle ...
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Articlebbase launches sustainable materials’ index
The bbase Design Group, an eyewear designer and manufacturer based in Hong Kong, has released a comparative tool measuring the sustainability performance of a number of materials used for the production of frames and lenses with the announced objective of providing the industry with a comparative analysis of existing sustainable ...
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Serengeti moves all its production to Italy
Serengeti, the high-end sunglasses’ brand of the Bollé group, has announced that it would move all its manufacturing base to Italy. While the company was already producing some of its collections in the country, it said it would transfer all of its lens and frame production to Italy from Spring ...
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HOYA partners with Orbis in vision care education
HOYA Vision Care has announced a new partnership with Orbis International, a global non-governmental organization that has been involved in the prevention of avoidable blindness for over forty years, through the strengthening of eye health systems and training programs for eye care professionals but not only. Among other initiatives, the ...
