The Environmental Reason Why You Shouldn’t Flush Contact Lenses

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By Mike Barrett

Contact lenses are so small that it’s easy to think you can flush them down the toilet and they’ll simply dissolve, but that’s far from the truth. The scientists behind a study presented at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting and exposition warn that flushing contact lenses add to the problem of microplastics littering both land and sea.

An enormous number of contact lenses wind up contaminating the environment, the study shows, as 21% of wearers flush them down the toilet or the sink. In the United States, 14 billion contact lenses get trashed each year, including 3 million that …read more

Source: naturalsociety.com

    

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