If your vision problems are from cataracts (as mine was,) your health insurance may well cover everything. Vanity surgery, on the other hand, is always expensive. Wear glasses. They can be recycled through the Lions Club, among other places. I'd bet your local optomitrist would take them.

Glasses from dollar store !

does packing tape need to be removed from cardboard boxes? I remove it .

Our local Children's Museum takes some the hard-to-recycle bits, like plastic bottle tops and other odd bits, and uses them in the children's art center. I have sent the plastic part of the contact lens container there. I have seen them turned into 'blades' for a pinwheel and used as the flat bit to catch the wind on a wind chime.

Thank you for the information