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Sustainability | SHADE
Shade Eyewear

The last pair of sunnies you'll ever need
shouldn't cost the earth.

We build eyewear tough enough to outlast everything else in your kit - including the throwaway habits the rest of the industry runs on. Here's exactly what we do about it, no greenwashing, just the facts.

Who we support

Proud partners of Sea Shepherd Australia

We're official Supporting Partners of Sea Shepherd Australia and part of their Direct Action Crew - backing the team that gets in the water and actually does something about it.

Sea Shepherd Australia is part of the global Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, founded by Captain Paul Watson in 1977. They run direct action campaigns against illegal fishing and poaching, carry out marine research and habitat restoration, and work alongside authorities to enforce conservation law - with their own fleet out on the water making it happen.

This isn't a logo on a landing page. It's an ongoing partnership because the ocean is the reason most of us picked up a pair of sunnies in the first place.

50% of all plastic ever made is single-use, with a lifespan of just 12 minutes. At this rate, by 2050 there'll be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
Packaging

Minimal plastic, front to back

Every touchpoint of getting a pair of Shades to your door has been stripped of plastic - manufacturing, bulk stock orders, right through to what lands in your letterbox.

Case protection

Heaps Good FSC-certified kraft paper wraps every case - fully compostable and recyclable, your call on how you dispose of it.

Outer mailer

Shipped in Heaps Good eco mailers, made from plant-based, compostable material. Your sunnies arrive exactly how they leave our manufacturer - wrapped only in the microfibre cloth and pouch.

AS5810 - Home compostable AS4736 - Industrial compostable
Climate Commitment

We clean up after ourselves

Every online order has a carbon footprint. So for every order we receive, we calculate the estimated shipping emissions and put a portion of revenue toward carbon removal companies vetted by scientists at Carbon Direct. Anything left over goes toward developing better removal tech.

1,000s of tonnesof carbon removed from the atmosphere by participating businesses
10M+orders shipped carbon-neutral across the network

Heirloom

Direct air capture that speeds up how fast naturally occurring minerals absorb CO₂ - no energy-hungry fans required.

Remora

Captures CO₂ straight from semi-truck tailpipes while they drive, sending it off for long-term storage.

Charm

Turns plant waste into a stable, carbon-rich liquid and stores it deep underground - safe from fires and erosion.

Zero waste recycling

Send back any old pair, get $30 towards new ones

We've partnered with TerraCycle to take the sunnies that would otherwise end up in landfill and recycle them properly. As a thanks, you'll get a $30 store voucher.

  1. Post your old sunnies to PO Box 214, Tugun, QLD 4224, with your name, email, and the words "Zero Waste Recycling" included.
  2. Snap a photo of the postage receipt and email it to hello@shadeeyewear.com.au (skip this and you'll wait until they physically arrive).
  3. Once we've received them - or seen your proof of postage - we send your $30 gift card straight over.

How TerraCycle handles it

Sunnies get collected and sorted by material, broken down into raw plastics and metals, then cleaned and reprocessed - plastics remoulded, metals smelted and reused. Those materials go straight back into new production, cutting demand for virgin resources.

Every pair recycled, every order offset, every wrapper composted - it adds up.

We're not chasing a perfect sustainability score. We're just building sunnies we're proud to stand behind, on a planet worth sticking around for.

— Sam

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