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UCSB Labs are Going Green with Innovative Recycling Initiative

UC Santa Barbara’s California NanoSystem Institute is cultivating innovation in their own labs by reducing glove waste.

Gloved hands using a pipette to pick up a single pipette tip from a standard pipette tip rack.

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: Solutions for Plastic Pipette Tips and Pipette Tip Racks

Pipette tips and their accompanying storage containers are undoubtedly one of the largest contributors to laboratory waste.

Close up of a solidified agarose gel undergoing UV illumination. Ethidium-bromide-stained DNA appears on the gel as orange, glowing bars.

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Ethidium Bromide: Swap or Not

Officially classified as a mutagen, Ethidium Bromide’s place as a DNA stain in the lab has been a topic of heavy discussion. Working with Ethidium Bromide not only poses a risk to the researcher but also produces hazardous waste that requires special disposal. Find out if you can swap out Ethidium bromide in your lab!

Blog Topic: Laboratory Disposables

UCSB Labs are Going Green with Innovative Recycling Initiative

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: Solutions for Plastic Pipette Tips and Pipette Tip Racks

Ethidium Bromide: Swap or Not

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