TerraCycle partners with Bausch + Lomb for eye care recycling program

Bausch + Lomb, a global eye health business based in Laval, Quebec, and TerraCycle of Trenton, New Jersey, have partnered to launch the Biotrue Eye Care Recycling program. The new program will allow consumers who participate in the program to recycle all brands of their eye single-dose eyedrops, lens cases and lens solution caps as well as Biotrue eyedrop bottles.

“The Biotrue Eye Care Recycling program is a natural extension of our existing One by One contact lens recycling collaboration with TerraCycle that will allow us to offer consumers who participate in the program the ability to properly recycle smaller eye care packaging, as well as our new Biotrue Hydration Boost Lubricant Eye Drops multidose bottles,” says Joe Gordon, U.S. president of Bausch + Lomb. “As part of our ongoing commitment to sustainability, we are proud to launch this new program to help prevent these eye care materials from harming our environment.”

According to The Association of Plastic Recyclers, the industry standard screen size, which identifies and removes unrecyclable plastics, filters out small-sized materials as part of the recycling process. Standard recycling facilities also only accept certain types of plastic. As a result, these eye care and lens care materials don’t end up getting processed and are diverted to landfills, TerraCycle says.

“Since our founding, TerraCycle has made it our mission to eliminate the idea of waste by recycling the nonrecyclable,” says Tom Szaky, founder and CEO, TerraCycle. “We look forward to building upon our five-year collaboration with Bausch + Lomb and offering a new program for eye care materials in the United States. With the Biotrue Eye Care Recycling Program, consumers now have a way to properly recycle these materials and help preserve our environment for future generations to come.”

To participate in the program, consumers can sign up on the TerraCycle Biotrue Eye Care Recycling program page. Once registered, consumers can collect their empty Biotrue Hydration Boost Lubricant Eye Drops multidose bottles and caps, as well as their single-dose eyedrops, lens cases and lens solution caps and mail them to TerraCycle using a prepaid shipping label. When the waste arrives at the TerraCycle facility, it is cleaned and melted into hard plastic pellets that can be used to make new recycled products.

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