- How sustainability goals are of growing importance in the laboratory industry
- Insights lab managers may overlook when searching for sustainable lab solutions
- How the certified pre-owned instruments industry impacts laboratory sustainability while helping companies achieve throughput and research objectives
LABXPO SUSTAINABILITY DIGITAL EVENT
Growing a Greener Lab
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Unleashing the Power of a Circular Economy: Streamlining Lab Sustainability
With environmental sustainability becoming a pressing issue, it's crucial that labs take steps towards reducing waste and adopting circular practices. However, many labs face challenges in implementing these sustainable actions due to time and resource constraints.
LabXpo's Sustainability event presents a solution in the form of REUZEit’s innovative approach to asset management. Reuzeit streamlines the process of buying, selling, and disposing of lab equipment, offering a technology-driven solution that helps labs achieve sustainability goals. With REUZEit’s tools and services, labs can make a significant impact on their sustainability objectives, reduce waste, save time, and maximize the value of their assets. Join this webinar to learn how you can join the circular economy and create a sustainable future for your lab with REUZEit.
Presenters: Ryan Andrews, Justin Andrews, Jonah Shell
REUZEit
11:00 am-12:00 pm EDT
Refurbish, Reuse, Recycle: The Impact of Certified Pre-Owned Instruments on Laboratory Sustainability
At its core, sustainability is doing more with less. Whether you’re a “first lab” purchasing brand-new equipment, or a “second lab” enjoying the economic benefits of like-new instrumentation, choosing a vendor with an effective certified pre-owned instrument program supports a sustainable circular economy, enabling adoption of environmentally friendly practices and access to scientific innovation.
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Presenter: Larissa Joshua
Agilent Technologies
12:30-1:30 pm EDT
Greening the Life and Afterlife of Your Lab Equipment, Chemicals, and Consumables
Managing the life cycle of your lab’s supplies is a big job. Doing so in a responsible and green manner can add to the complexity. To maximize best practices and sustainability, what should you consider when purchasing for your lab? When running your lab? How do you know when it’s time to say goodbye to something? How can you determine if the equipment can still be put to good use? What is the most efficient, and the most responsible, way to get the equipment out of your laboratory and into someone else’s?
Non-profit partners My Green Lab and Seeding Labs will share ways to maximize your equipment’s life cycle from a range of perspectives with a focus on long-term sustainability and environmental impact reduction. The speakers will give insight into the carbon impact of the life sciences industry, the necessary focus on lab practice and supply chain, and how and why to build a culture of sustainability in your labs. Consider how a life cycle-oriented approach to considering everything you purchase for your lab is key to reducing overall environmental impact and your Scope 3 emissions.
The speakers will offer guidance on the processes used to determine if a piece of lab equipment is suitable for donation; how to get the equipment out of the laboratory; and how to determine the best possible recipient for the donation. Learn about the short-term and long-term benefits associated with lab equipment donation, and how equipment donation is not only ethically responsible but also makes good business sense.
Presenters: Raj Patey and Jennifer Raymond
My Green Lab and Seeding Labs
2:00-3:00 pm EDT
The Future of Lab Consumables
Plastic-based lab consumables are mandatory for many steps in the lab: purity, sterility, ease-of-use, the expectations of the user are high. But plastic provides a severe heritage: large quantities of lab waste are generated, most of them defined as bio- or chemical hazard, and legal restrictions specify waste management by thermal incineration.
In view of this, the demand for more sustainable consumables grow: On the user side as well as on the supplier side, as this journey can only be mastered together.
Eppendorf is assessing the current status and reviewing the best options in order to make them a reality. We want to give some insights about the search for intelligent plastic re-use of different types of plastics, development of more sustainable materials, new production processes, and last but not least, continuous and increased education of users on what they can do to become more sustainable in the lab.
Presenter: Jan Bebermeier
Eppendorf
3:30-4:40 pm EDT
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