Below, we've outlined a variety of ways for you to reduce waste in the lab starting today! Conduct a Waste Audit When it comes to lab waste, one of the most important things to understand is exactly what you're discarding. To do that, we recommend conducting a waste audit. Clearly, the best approach to laboratory waste is preventing its generation. Examples include reducing the scale of laboratory operations, reducing the formation of waste during laboratory operations, and substituting nonhazardous or less hazardous chemicals in chemical procedures. Grenova's mission is to lower costs in the lab industry and reduce biohazard waste in the environment by delivering ground-breaking approaches in dealing with plastic consumables.
Tipnovus™ is a bench top, robotic arm friendly, high throughput device that enables laboratories to wash and sanitize pipette tips for reuse. Tipnovus™ enables labs to re-use plastic pipette tips numerous times, cutting associated consumable costs by up to 96%. The unique method of wash and sanitation is safe for both the lab and the environment. TipNovus combines high pressure washing, specialized cleaning reagents, tip agitation, ultrasonic cleaning, and UV sterilization to yield tips that are ready for use in mass spec, PCR, NGS, ELISA.
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Open the pipette and place the contaminated parts in a strong detergent or cleaning solution. Rinse several times with distilled water and allow to dry. Decontamination should always be followed by confirming that radioactivity has been reduced to an acceptable level.
Yes. Conical tubes and even pipette tips can be washed and/or autoclaved and reused. Pipette tip boxes can be repurposed to hold other lab supplies or as containers for Western blots.
Using a dirty pipet causes too little or contaminated solution to be delivered. Leaving little droplets behind on the walls (except for the small amount in the tip) causes too little solution to be delivered. Forcing the pipet into the bulb usually causes liquid to be sucked into the bulb.
Pipette and burette should be rinsed 3 times with DI water, then 3 times with the solution they will measure and transfer.
