Adding to a run of student-led recycling programs at UC Santa Barbara, fourth-year undergraduate students Kaili Mikami and Lauren Buyalos are helping combat the rising tide of discarded plastics in ...

2• Introduction to Laboratory Safety and Laboratory waste Managements. 3• Know your Surrounding. 4• Laboratory Safely rules and Guidelines. 5• Safe Lab Practices . 6• Overview of Laboratory Risk ...

Every experiment produces results—and byproducts. Plastics, solvents, and energy use add up quickly in research settings, but a growing number of laboratories are showing that waste doesn’t have to be ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is committed to the health and safety of both humans and the environment in all operations of the chemical enterprise Regulations that support the protection of the ...

An investigation conducted by the Maroon from April 26 to 29 found quantities of discarded lab waste, including potentially infectious waste, outside several research facilities on campus. In selected ...

Daily solvent use is pretty much a given in a synthetic chemistry lab. In academic laboratories, it’s such an ingrained part of research that chemists might forget that solvents can be serious safety ...

All hazardous chemical waste containers must be labeled with the contents. Labels are available and instructions are listed on the back. Failure to list the contents can lead to a material becoming an ...

Disposable broken glassware includes any laboratory glassware that does not contain or is not contaminated with more than a trace amount of chemicals or any radioactive or biohazardous material.

US cardiac catheterization laboratories are throwing out a lot of paper and plastic waste that could otherwise be recycled, a single center’s experience suggests, indicating that there’s a big ...

The United States currently lacks an industrial capability to recycle UNF. Project Omega's ARPA-E award, which falls under the CURIE (Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy) program, aims to ...