Every pair of OCENEO sunglasses starts where most people see waste: a neoprene wetsuit that has reached the end of its life. Instead of letting it end up in landfill, we give it a second life as a frame.
Neoprene, a material that is hard to recycle
Neoprene is a synthetic foam designed to resist cold and water. Those qualities make it a great insulator, and a real problem at end of life: very few recycling channels know how to process it. As a result, thousands of wetsuits are thrown away every year.
From wetsuit to sunglasses
We collect worn-out wetsuits from all water sports, clean them, cut them up, then transform and hand-assemble them near the Bay of Arcachon, in France. The patterns and shades of each wetsuit live on in the material: no two pairs are ever identical.
A material that tells a story
Wearing sunglasses made from recycled wetsuits means wearing a unique, traceable object. The material that once protected surfers and divers from the cold now protects your eyes from the sun, with UV400 bionylon lenses by Divel Italia.
