Promote Eyeglass Collection Locations

Lions: Promote Your Eyeglass Collection Locations

A list of community eyeglass collection locations has been added to the “Find A Club” section of our Web site to assist the public in finding the drop-off location nearest to them. We encourage you to submit your club's community eyeglass collection locations to headquarters to promote and strengthen your recycling efforts.  These community collections have a direct impact on the strength and success of the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Program.

• Please complete and submit the Lions Recycle for Sight club participation form to include your club’s locations on the association’s Web site.

• Remember to post these locations on your club’s Web site, too.

Lions and Walmart: USA Eyeglass Collection

Lions Clubs International is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with Walmart to collect used eyeglasses from the public at Walmart and Sam's Club stores throughout the United States.                                   

Co-branded eyeglass collection boxes, bearing both the LCI and Walmart logos, will be available in the 2,500 Walmart  stores, and 500 Sam's Clubs, with vision centers, commencing January-February, 2010. These new boxes will replace existing Lions collection boxes currently in place at the specified stores with vision centers.  For Walmart stores and Sam's Clubs without vision centers, existing Lions eyeglass collections will continue at the discretion of the store manager.

Walmart will ship the collected eyeglasses to their distribution centers, where they will then be delivered to the nearest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers for sorting, cleaning and processing.  

Usable glasses will be available for Lions and other optical missions to developing nations, where the glasses will be dispensed to children and adults free of charge.

Based upon their proximity to the Walmart distribution centers, the following Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers will be receiving eyeglasses collected from the public at Walmart stores:

• Indiana Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, Upland, IN
• Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation of MD 21, Phoenix, AZ
• Texas Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, Midland, TX
• New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, Inc., West Trenton, NJ
• Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center of Northern Virginia, Arlington, VA

For More Information

To learn more about eyeglass recycling program, please contact the Health and Children’s Services Department.