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. In fact, a waste audit at MIT found that 80% of their laboratory plastic waste was from pipette tip boxes alone1. Although different labs will have different waste stream percentages depending on the type of research being done in the building, in most biology labs, items like pipette tips/boxes and disposable gloves are top contenders for the largest contributors to laboratory waste.
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