Glass lenses are fast being replaced by plastic lenses. According to National Reseach Development Corporation, demand for plastic lenses in India is about three million pairs per annum. Already, in ...

Instead of glasses, I wear contact lenses. This means throwing out scraps of plastic (as well as their packaging) every two weeks, in addition to using cleaning fluid (which comes in plastic ...

Clearer glasses, better-fitting dental fillings and remote-controlled artificial muscles may result from work into plastics that shift shape when light shines on them, say researchers. Australian ...

A two-month-old girl has gazed at her mother's face for the first time after a surgeon saved her sight by inserting plastic lenses into her damaged eyes. Leah Calthorpe-Betts, of Ipswich, Suffolk, is ...