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Kayu Bamboo Sunglasses Offer Sight to the Blind

January 5th, 2009 TreeHugger
kayu bamboo sunglasses photo Image: Kayu website When I happened upon Kayu sunglasses made of bamboo I nearly kept on moving. Did the miniscule amount of plastic found in a pair of glasses frames merit replacement by bamboo? Well, I use a replaceable head toothbrush, so maybe that argument could be made. But what piqued my interest more, was the statistic that “80% of blindness is curable or preventable, yet 36 million are needlessly blind.” Responding to this dilemma Kayu contributes $50 USD, for each pair of glassses sold, to Unite for Sight who work towards the elimination of preventable blindness....
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