Cutting out single-use plastics was the beginning of a sustainability transformation, says Jane Kilcoyne.
One lab’s choices to cut back on waste production and energy consumption — such as switching from plastic to reusable glassware — saved thousands of euros.It started in 2019, with a simple switch from plastic 200-milliliter containers to compostable ones. But over the next year, Jane Kilcoyne, a research chemist, and her laboratory went on to save €15,800 , shrink their non-chemical waste by more than 95% and reduce their consumption of single-use plastics by 69%.
about the initiative’s challenges and successes, how her team can be a blueprint for other labs and what she’d like to see governments and others do to help.We run Ireland’s national monitoring programme for toxins in shellfish. We get just over 3,000 samples per year that need to be tested for regulated toxins, and we complete more than 5,000 tests per year. We also do a lot of research on biotoxins.
The energy side of things took longer. Energy efficiency was spearheaded by our institution’s facilities team and Toni Hollowell, the facilities manager at the institute and one of the co-authors of the paper. E-mails were constantly being sent out to staff across the building, reminding them to switch off equipment. It took the facilities team a long time to work out how we use our fume hoods and which ones could be turned off when.
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