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If you have a hard time reading this, perhaps you should recycle your glasses! I’m getting to that time of life when my arms are just barely long enough to allow sufficient focal distance for reading. This leads to thoughts of glasses and being who I am, next thing ya’ know we’re talking re-use. Yup, REUSE, as in reduce, REUSE, recycle. Reuse, which is better than recycling because we are generally able to take used items and use them with little or no additional processing. Now, I know, some of you are thinking, “But Bart, you said recycling was the greatest thing since sliced bread!”. And while that is true, REUSE, by comparison, is the greatest thing since freshly baked, homemade, right out of the oven and covered with real butter sliced bread. So what does one have to do with the other? One word, … LIONS. As in Lions Club of Wisconsin. Most of you have no doubt seen some of the Lion’s Club’s collection buckets for used glasses (if not, perhaps you need to see an eye care professional). The Lion’s collection buckets can be found at the County Health Department, Trig’s, Banks, Credit Unions, Eye Clinics, Opthamologists’ offices and at the Rhinelander Medical Center. When you contribute your used glasses to the Lion’s program, they are collected, checked for prescription and REUSED by somebody else who cannot afford glasses. Often these glasses go to countries where this program is the only hope folks have of ever obtaining glasses. Mr. Chuck Franz informs me that Wisconsin’s Lion’s Clubs recently went over their one millionth pair of glasses collected! Now that’s a pile of reuse, going to a good cause to boot! But there’s more!… Now being a man, with a man’s usual astute powers of observation, I happened to notice that the Lion’s now also take used hearing aids for the same reuse purpose. Chuck tells me that the Lion’s have actually been taking hearing aids for over 7 years now, but ‘better late than never’ has always been a favorite adage of mine!. The recycling and/or reuse of used hearing aids helps to subsidize the Lion’s program of providing hearing aids to local folks that need such devices. Score another one, this time for reduction because the Lion’s are doing both collections in one bucket, therefore REDUCING the amount of resources used. Nirvana can’t be far off, right? But, can you see it?! If not, get your eyes checked and turn your old glasses in for reuse through the Lions! |
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