{"id":737262,"date":"2026-08-14T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737262\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:30:10","slug":"solar-eclipse-glasses-recycling-what-to-do-with-them-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737262\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse glasses recycling: What to do with them now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millions of us were treated to a stunning spectacle on Wednesday during mainland Europe&#8217;s first total solar eclipse for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And for some in the UK, it was a race against time to find a pair of eye-protecting eclipse glasses as shortages grew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you did manage to grab some, you might be asking &#8211; what do I do with them now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Eclipse glasses are a great example of our single-use culture,&#8221; says Dr Renee Tonkin, the founder of Science Owl, an environmental education organisation focused on waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Particularly because they&#8217;re difficult to recycle due to their mixed materials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Recycle Now, which advises on appropriate places to recycle items, the glasses are not wholly recyclable in your household waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It says you can recycle the cardboard frames so long as you separate them from the lenses, which are harder to recycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So here are three things you can do with those retina-saving spectacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of us were treated to a stunning spectacle on Wednesday during mainland Europe&#8217;s first total solar eclipse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}