This sub-category focuses on laboratory-specific waste streams and how to minimise their environmental impact while maintaining compliance and safety. Topics may include:
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Biological, chemical, and clinical waste
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Disposal routes and treatment technologies
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Waste reduction and substitution strategies
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Lab plastics and contaminated recyclables
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Guidance, training, and case studies from institutions
This space complements General Waste & Recycling, which looks at campus-wide systems. Laboratory Waste is focused on the specialist challenges of research environments.
Hi everyone! (hope I have this in the correct place!).. I’m looking into glove recycling and consumable recycling streams for animal facility laboratories and wondered if any other university’s have this in place. Alternatively if you have explored this and don’t have it in place it would be good to hear some feedback as to why. Thanks 
Hi Amy
A couple of our sites are using this service as a pilot at the moment (or are about to start using them): Clinical and Healthcare Waste Recycling - MYGroup – it looks from the website link that they’ve done a bit of a branding revamp since we started looking at them, but they quoted us considerably less than the service we’d been using for flexible plastics previously.
If you drop me a line on andrew.waggott@mrc.ukri.org – I’ll put you in contact with the two officers who are looking at this.
In the background we’re doing a LCA comparison between this recycling route and low temp incineration to convince ourselves that the approach provides a carbon benefit. I can share that too once we have it.
Cheers
Andrew
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