Please Stop Flushing Your Contact Lenses

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By Lorraine ChowAug 20, 2018, 1:19 pm124 pts
Contact lenses may appear harmlessly soft and small, but a big chunk of American users is improperly disposing their used lenses and adding to the planet's microplastic problem, Arizona State University researchers found. In a survey of 409 wearers, about 1 in 5 responded that they flushed their used lenses…

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