"If you have worked in a biology lab, you will probably remember the large amount of plastic waste generated every day. This is especially true for plastic products such as pipette tips, Petri dishes and Falcon tubes, which are designed to be used once, or for a short time, before being discarded."
"But times are changing, says Broadbent. Through a project funded by King's College, her team, along with an undergraduate student working on the project, is developing a business case for switching to glass containers. 'While using glass vials was common in the past, implementing this change now requires careful consideration of costs, labour, safety and materials,' Broadbent says."
"A highly cited Correspondence article published in Nature in 2015 estimated that 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste was being generated yearly by labs worldwide, based on data collected from the biosciences department at the University of Exeter, UK."
"In another study, conducted in 2021 by the Roslin Institute's microbiology lab at the University of Edinburgh, the authors estimated that more than 17,000 kg of plastic waste could be saved annually if all the researchers in their institute made similar reductions."
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