Our purpose isn’t simply to create a world where glasses-wearers can choose stylish, affordable glasses. It’s also to remake harmful waste products into beautiful, environmentally friendly products. Taking something that was thoughtlessly discarded and finding a new use for it. For us, right now, that means recycling trash into fasionable eyewear. We began on this path when we learned many discarded plastics were thermoplastics, which can be melted and moulded into new products. As we kept investigating, a new frontier in frame making opened up.

Dresdens are made from both new and waste plastics, or a combination of both. Our main range is made from a recyclable Swiss nylon called Nylon 12 (a type of plastic called Grilamid TR-90), in a ‘closed loop’, zero-waste system. This means we collect the production waste, cut up and feed it back into the moulding process. This material is also the Rolls Royce of nylons: ultra-durable and beautifully lightweight. We choose injection moulding as our manufacturing process so we can experiment with a huge range of durable plastics – both recyclable and recycled – and respond to interest in particular colours and materials.

Australian-made

Recycled and recyclable