NEW YORK—Warby Parker Inc. recently published its 2025 Impact Report in which the company examines its core values to ensure responsible growth aligned with benchmarks set by the universally recognized Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). “Since we founded Warby Parker, our team has worked to reshape the eyewear and eyecare industry, driven by the belief that business can provide great value—and scale—while doing good in the world,” said Warby Parker co-founders and co-CEOs Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa in the report.
For 2025, the company reported a gross corporate carbon footprint of 62,238 metric tons CO2 equivalents, comprising Scope 1 emissions of 771 metric tons, 5,319 metric tons (Scope 2) and 56,148 metric tons (Scope 3). Warby Parker said it purchases offsets for operational emissions and several Scope 3 categories. The company said the offsets purchased for 2025 are expected to neutralize roughly 51 percent of its total footprint, leaving a post-offset net footprint of about 30,596 metric tons.
“As we grow, we aim to prove that working toward sustainability does not come at the expense of product quality, customer satisfaction, or growth,” the company said in the report. “How? By pushing ourselves to waste less, operate our facilities more efficiently, and minimize our greenhouse gas footprint. We also offset our carbon emissions to ensure that we’re carbon-neutral across our operations.”
Source: Warby Parker Inc.’s 2025 Impact Report
To identify and reduce the largest emissions hotspots, Warby Parker said it has partnered with Vaayu, a carbon and impact reduction partner that empowers companies to calculate, track, and cut their carbon and environmental impact, to complete cradle to grave life cycle assessments (LCAs) across its entire product catalog—building on a 2022 pilot LCA for two popular frames. The firm expects product-level LCAs to complete in early 2026, a milestone Warby said will inform material choices, manufacturing adjustments and logistics improvements.
Warby Parker reported that 40 percent of input materials by weight used in manufacturing came from recycled sources in 2025. The company also reported it has recycled 53,371 pounds of damaged or obsolete frame inventory and diverted 18,164 pounds of demo-lens plastic from landfill through a program with Eastman Chemical. Eastman’s process breaks demo lenses down to molecular feedstock that can be reused to make materials such as acetate with a lower life-cycle footprint. In addition, more than 38,000 pairs of used glasses collected from store drop-offs were redirected to Lions Club recycling and redistribution programs in 2025.
The company also highlighted packaging and office programs that factored in its sustainability efforts including using recycled-fiber content in shipping materials and water station and composting programs at its offices. In the report, Warby Parker estimates that partnerships in New York and Nashville prevented more than 88,000 single-use bottles in 2025, while NYC office initiatives avoided roughly 3,660 pounds of landfill waste.
“We take our impact on the planet seriously and are proud to be carbon-neutral for our operational emissions since our founding,” the company said in the report.
For more information or to read the full 2025 impact report, visit WarbyParker.com.
