If you wear prescription glasses, there’s a good chance you have a stash of old pairs collecting dust in a forgotten drawer. Add “exhume eyeglasses graveyard” to your spring cleaning checklist this year and donate those old prescription spectacles to a local cause.
The Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation (OLSHF) manages a recycling program that collects more than 75,000 eyeglasses every year around the state. There are 30+ dropoff locations in Portland, from optometry clinics and pharmacies to retirement homes and grocery stores.
Donations are cleaned, calibrated, repaired, and sorted with the help of a program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. OLSHF distributes nearly 120,000 donated eyeglasses each year to organizations that connect them with people in need all over the world.
Looking for another way to help? Schedule a sorting party at the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Program warehouse in Northwest Portland.
