ICYMI: Our May newsletter is packed with professional development opportunities, community highlights, and resources to help educators bring #GreenChemistry into their classrooms and labs. 🌱🧪 Explore it here: us1.campaign-archive.com?u=2f6d95f69e...

Green certification programs like LEAF and My Green Labs allow labs to formally critique their own green profile. This article details measurable improvements in a biomedical facility following enrollment in My Green Labs. #sustainibility #greenlabs #greensky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Environmental Impact, Cost, and Acceptability of a Laboratory Sustainability Certification Program for Biomedical Research in an Academic Medical Center

The healthcare sector contributes considerably to greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Biomedical research within academic medical centers (AMCs) is p…

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Green #hydrogen doesn't always have to be costly to produce. Empa researchers and partners develop materials for water electrolysis that are ✅efficient ✅cost effective ✅can be scaled up for industry use https://fcld.ly/protis-green-hydrogen #greenenergy #renewables #empamaterialsscience

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The fourth principle of #GreenChemistry, "Designing Safer Chemicals," states that chemical products should be designed to preserve their efficacy while reducing toxicity. 🧑‍🔬🧪 Learn more about the #12PrinciplesOfGreenChemistry: www.beyondbenign.org/about-green-... #ChemistryEducation

ICYMI: Our latest newsletter offers Earth Month resources, community updates, and new opportunities in the #GreenChemistry education field. 🌍🧪 Explore it here: us1.campaign-archive.com?u=2f6d95f69e... Sign up here to receive our monthly newsletter: www.beyondbenign.org/email-list-s...

Happy #SustainabilityTipTuesday! Today we're talking reuse+disposal of cooling packs! ❄️ Fill empty space in ULT freezers 👋 Reach out to local groups who could use them (food banks, sports clubs, ...) 🔙 Contact supplier to see if they can be returned 🗑️ Dispose appropriately: tinyurl.com/4fc2hhcy

Equipsent aims to make the world a fairer & more sustainable place by creating a link between people who have unused equipment & those who would make use of it It’s upcoming General Assembly is the best occasion to get an insight into the association,the projects & to meet the team. equipsent.org

Risk of contamination should not stop you from reducing plastic waste! 🧪♻️ A case study shows how small optimizations can cut 65% of plastic waste in neuron transfection! All, without compromising sterility or workflow. Here’s how. 👇

"Research can not only contribute to sustainability goals by addressing relevant scientific questions, but also by challenging the way science is done" Interesting read on lab plastic waste @emboreports.org ➡️ www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... #SustainableResearch #LabSustainability

What’s in our bin?: Labs kick off and demand the transition towards a circular economy for lab plastics: EMBO reports: Vol 26, No 2

EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

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🚨New on Bristol Medical School's #Sustainability blog:🚨 ♻️From tupperware to temperature tracking: my journey towards a greener lab - by Idman Abdullahi Mohamed. 💡Top tips on reducing single-use plastic waste & greening laboratories! 👀Read the blog: tinyurl.com/bxk5pz2r #MedSky #Workplace

🧪 Lab plastic waste is a huge problem - but what can we do about it? 🥼 In our lab, we tested whether reusing and washing microtitre plates could help reduce waste. In some cases, it works! ♻️ 🌍 Read more here: buff.ly/XOGSX0q #greenlab #sustainability #openscience

Every lab can be a greener lab. 🌱 We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]

Happy #SustainabilityTipTuesday from us to you! Single-use plastics make up a large proportion of #waste coming from labs. Check out our Greenlabs wiki for ideas on how to reduce plastic waste in the lab with simple tips and tricks! unlimited.ethz.ch/spaces/green... #greenlabs

♻️🌍 Waste Prevention is the first of the #12PrinciplesOfGreenChemistry, a framework for designing chemistry that protects human health & the environment. This principle reminds us that it is better to prevent waste than to treat & clean up waste after it is formed. buff.ly/zigxO6w

Exciting collaboration! D-ITET's Automatic Control Lab and Google are pioneering carbon-aware computing by shifting workloads between data centre locations. Sophie Hall and project lead Ana Radovanovic are proving that academic theory can drive real-world sustainability. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Have you ever paused and wondered about the many different ways in which computing infrastructure and activities impact the environment? @loiclnlg.bsky.social and our own Flaminia Zane have created a free guide dedicated to sustainable computing in science: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... 🧬🖥️📊🌱

Bioplastics for the lab are finally here! But there’s a big problem — few people actually know what bioplastics are. Here’s what you need to know 🧵👇

Sustainability tip for yeast labs: when replica plating you can combine two different dissection plates into one replica plate. This will reduce the number of plates you use by almost ½. Here’s how: 🧵/1

Very interesting article outlining good evaluation practice for sustainability assessments of analytical methods. Many tools are available in this rapidly expanding field. Hopefully these assessments can be come embedded in all lab settings. #greensky #greenchem. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

How to correctly evaluate greenness, whiteness and other “colours”? Introducing general rules of a good evaluation practice

In analytical chemistry, the use of dedicated metrics for assessing greenness, whiteness and other “colours” of new methods is becoming very popular. However, does this entail an increase in the overa...

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This post might change how you do your PCRs Potentially saving you 46% time, 50% money, and 38% plastic waste In short: DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2024.01.013 In more detail in the thread below:

A concept known as Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) has recently begun spreading through the chemical sciences. This approach has roots firmly planted in green chemistry. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

If your lab is winding down for the holidays, remember to 💡 switch off incubators, shakers, and other equipment - they need their rest too!

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Did you know that 85 million tons of paper are wasted each year globally? This equates to over 1 million trees being lost to paper waste. In this sustainability tip, we have compiled a few examples of changes that can be made in the office to encourage a more #sustainable space! #SCNOW #Recycle

💡How to Save Water in the Lab ? ➡️ 10 Practical Sustainability Tips for Scientists #MyGreenLab mygreenlab.org/the-beaker-b...

How to Save Water in the Lab: 10 Practical Sustainability Tips for Scientists | My Green Lab - Education

Discover 10 practical ways labs can cut water waste, reduce costs, and boost sustainability without compromising science.

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Über 8 Kilogramm Abfall pro Patient*in im Krankenhaus Erste Benchmark-Studie zum Krankenhausabfall legt Grundlagen für Kreislaufwirtschaft... weiterlesen

If any of you are interested in making digital practice in FE & Skills more sustainable, then please join our FREE online Digital Sustainability Community - open to anyone working in the Further Education. Next meetup: Tues 11 Nov, 2pm. Share ideas, challenges & resources. Please share x

The result? ✅ 45+ concrete opportunities for greener practices What made this work? Enthusiasm + positivity. Here is my full list of sustainable actions: re-advance.com/a-list-of-su...

#LEAF is a sustainability standard designed to help research groups reduce environmental impact.🌱 As an efficient lab = a sustainable lab, here are 3 top tips to save resources and avoid waste from Molly and Sylvia in our MacLaren and Xue labs...🧵 #EarthDay

Making your lab more sustainable – top tips for LEAF accreditation

Need inspiration on how to start working towards your lab ‘LEAF’ accreditation? We spoke to DPhil students Sylvia Franklin and Molly John from the MacLaren and Xue Labs respectively, who led a recent…

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If you care about sustainability, these numbers you need to know - let's make it super quick: These numbers are hard to come by but: Centrifuge: 4.2 kWh Incubator: 0.04–0.9 PCR Cycler: 0.2–2 Thermomixer: 0.11 E-pipette: 0.01–0.05 #GreenLab #STEM #Sustainability

Do you have an idea that could make research more environmentally sustainable? Get up to £10,000 to develop your project and help increase sustainable lab practices. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky