Donating eclipse glasses

[conuly]

Please donate your undamaged eclipse glasses 🙂

This organization will ship them to schools in Latin America, where they'll have an annular eclipse in 2024.
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Eclipse Give Back

We are often asked what to do with used eclipse glasses after an eclipse. Eclipse Glasses USA works with other organizations to donate used but undamaged eclipse glasses to other countries with upcoming eclipse events.

We only accept US-made paperboard glasses that have the manufacturer's address and contact info and that bear the ISO logo. All others will be discarded due to liability and quality issues.

All shipments will be opened and inspected before being repackaged for outbound shipment. Damaged or unusable glasses will be discarded.

Glasses can be shipped via USPS First-Class Mail (super inexpensive) in an envelope. For larger quantities, please consult your local post office for the most cost effective ways to ship.

We do not provide prepaid labels.

You can mail them to:

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
PO BOX 50571
Provo, UT 84605

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Comments

[erinptah]

Worth checking libraries/schools/museums in your area to see if anybody's collecting them locally, too! I dropped a bunch off at my local library this morning.

[musyc]

Just what I was going to say! My local library is collecting them to donate onwards.

[thewayne]

Very cool! I'll definitely do it and repeat your post to spread the word some more.

[moxie_man]

Just so long as they are American made per a note on their website due to "liability" issues. Already shipped mine off as they were American made, but some of those given away in my area for use were clearly marked Made in China. So shipping those is just a wast of your money. They'll get trashed.

[vvalkyri]

Also until April 30th, just drop them off at any warby Parker and they will send to astronomers without borders