For Global Recycling Day the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies shares all the ways the reduce, reuse, and recycle in the lab.
When speaking about the environment, the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies is usually connected with their work looking at how the world around us affects neurologic disease, especially ALS. Man people don’t realize that in the lab, they worry just as much about how they affect the environment, as how it affects us.
Last year the NeuroNetwork lab was granted Platinum status by the University of Michigan’s Office of Campus Sustainability(link is external)‘s Planet Blue(link is external) initiative, the highest (best) rating one can receive. In honor of the 6th annual Global Recycling Day(link is external), the NeuroNetwork “green team” shared the ways they reduce, reuse and recycle in the lab.
How we reduce, reuse & recycle:
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- The Recycling Team: Crystal Pacut, Diana Rigan, Ian Webber-Davis and Andrew Carter
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- Plastic bags
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- Crystal Pacut rinsing a plastic bottle for recycling
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- Pens, pencils and markers through the “Recycle Write!” program
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- Bottle caps ready to be recycled through U-M’s “Cap-ture” program
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- Paper towels for compost
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- Oral care from home
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- Classic recycling
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- We use the washable glass pipet, whenever possible, instead of the cheaper plastic versions that are thrown out after every use
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- Packing for tissue culture supplies, ready to go back to Cornig, which will recycle them
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- Andrew Carter and Ian Webber-Davis displaying pipet tip boxes that will be up-cycled into plastic benches
