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Bottleyes: Sustainable, Modular, and Indestructible Eyewear

July 18, 2024

The first indestructible and modular eyewear made from recycled plastic bottles

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Bottleyes is the world’s first brand where style meets sustainability and durability.

Our frames are practically indestructible because the recycled material we use has been recovered and certified to the highest industry standards, surpassing even virgin plastic. This, combined with our new high-quality rubber hinge design, eliminates all the common breakage points of ordinary metal hinges. You’ll never have to adjust a screw again.

BOTTLEYES: Where style meets function. Customize your hinge to match your daily attire for any occasion with a variety of colors and styles.

Each of our sustainable frames is made from three recycled plastic bottles, transformed into a new, durable, and certified material that, combined with our new design, can withstand anything.

Never Tighten a Screw Again

It’s very simple. Contrary to popular belief, plastics and metals have never gotten along well; thermoaddition or the chemicals used to bind them weaken the structures of conventional optical frames. Our solution is this small, flexible, patented hinge, resulting in frames that are up to 4 times more durable than high-end brands.

Our mission is simple, we want to turn people with glasses into the protagonists of the environmental change that the planet needs. And with this discovery, we’ve developed five unique frame models tailored to fit every face shape and style preference.

We offer 5 frame models that will fit your face and meet your needs.

The advantage of being modular is that if any part of your Bottleyes deteriorates, you can send it to us. We’ll recycle it and send you a new part for free. Just pay for shipping.

Three plastic bottles can last up to 500 years polluting our planet, and it’s these same three recycled bottles that we effectively collect and use to create the best sustainable eyewear in the world. Made to last a lifetime, breaking the cycle of use and discard perpetuated by major optical brands.

We are responsible until the last mile. We have an innovative, fully certified packaging that does not harm the environment and is biodegradable in just 50 days.

We have a team of founders with over 20 years of experience in the ophthalmic design industry and former founders of other optical companies to bring you today the best product we have been able to create in our careers.

Sketching 

CAD

Prototyping 

Injection Molding

Assembly tests

Bottleyes is designed so that a person with no experience can assemble them in 20 seconds or less. This also helped us deliver a product of this quality at fair prices since we didn’t have to spend on specialized machinery or an assembly line. Never before has owning glasses been so easy.

Thermal tests

We want you to understand how durable our products are. Normally, the average temperature at which this test is conducted is between 30°C (86°F) and 35°C (95°F) because this is the heat range on a sunny beach. Bottleyes are tested at over 55°C (131°F), which means you can use them in Death Valley (one of the hottest places on Earth) without any issues.

Elasticity and Polymer Memory Testing

Normally the elasticity tests are done by subjecting the frame to a specific load, usually between 80Kg and 120Kg because it is the average weight of a person, they want your glasses to be well in case you crush them by accident (But don’t try it, you will surely end up breaking your glasses, the industry is not usually transparent with this). With Bottleyes you can forget about this, as our advanced design and materials have memory and we have subjected them to being crushed with more than ONE TON and crushed by a car and they immediately regain their shape.