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Acetate Sunglasses: Eco-Friendly or Just Greenwashing?

TerraCycle Include USA
When I was in Brussels at the Paradise City festival, a small local nonprofit showed me a block of acetate that had been created from recycling old cigarette butts – it looked a lot like the material in tortoiseshell glasses, actually. If you for some reason have a lot of old broken acetate frames to dispose of (maybe you’re a sunglasses company that wants to do a take-back program?)  I would contact Terracycle and ask if they could add them to their cigarette butt recycling stream. Hopefully someday there will be recycling or a take-back system in place.