Specsavers extends eyewear recycling scheme to all UK stores. Specsavers has announced a national roll-out of in-store recycling boxes to all of its UK stores, extending a scheme run in partnership with recycling firm MyGroup that allows customers to drop off unwanted glasses, cases and contact lens packaging regardless of where they were bought.
The roll-out adds around 300 stores to an existing network of 659 Specsavers sites and laboratories, which collected 72 tonnes of eyewear and packaging for recycling in 2025, up roughly five tonnes year-on-year. MyGroup processes the hard-to-recycle plastics collected through the scheme, which launched in 2022, and turns them into materials including joinery boards and furniture.
Helen Curran, Specsavers' Head of Sustainability for the UK and Ireland, said: "At Specsavers we believe that sustainability must show up in our everyday operations. Investing in customer recycling in every one of our UK stores is exactly that: a practical, tangible step that keeps valuable materials in circulation and makes it genuinely easy for our customers to be part of the solution."
