The question has come up of what we do with the eyeglasses we collect that are not usable for mission trips. We send the glasses to a company in California called Respect. They have 250 people sorting the glasses and extracting the metal and the lenses. They recycle everything. One example is they grind up the lenses and sell them to a paint manufacturer. We are not the only Lion recycling center sending classes to Respec. We were told that Canada ships five truckloads a year of unusable glasses. Come and volunteer at COLERC