Tips for a Greener Lab

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Here you'll find eco-friendly products, recycling and tree planting campaigns that can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint.

Things you can do:

Recycle Laboratory Plastics

Laboratory Plastics Recycling

Join our laboratory plastic recycling service and lower your carbon footprint.

It's easy to register, the service is free of charge and you'll be doing your 'bit' towards easing the environmental cost of science.

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Re-plant Britain's Ancient Forests and Woodlands

Laboratree Campaign

Laboratree is our campaign to plant trees and make a positive contribution to the environment.

Customers who purchase Fastrak tip refills qualify for trees to be planted and the more they purchase the faster the forest grows.

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Products you can buy:

Green Product

EcoPac

The benefits of pipette tip refills are now available to users of Biomek® FX and NX Workstations.

Save on storage space, waste and costs with the new EcoPac® refill system from Alpha Laboratories.

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Green Product

Fastrak

Fastrak is the most eco-friendly tip refill system on the market.

It is made from 95% renewable materials and the printing inks are all vegetable based. The supporting base of the tip refill tower is produced from corn starch and is the industry's first compostable, non-petroleum bio-plastic.

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