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Solutions & Stories

Making your lab more sustainable doesn't have to mean a big budget or a major overhaul. This is where we showcase the products, services and organisations helping labs become greener, from bio-plastic consumables to equipment management, along with the people and stories behind them.

Some are our own independent reviews, others are features of the organisations driving change forward, all chosen to help you find what genuinely works.

Browse below to find what might work for your lab.

Bio-Bin

Hazardous waste container

A non-sharps hazardous waste container made from 96% paper-based material, cutting the carbon footprint across production, transport and incineration compared with virgin plastic bins.

Imrali Inventions

iWash device

A UK inventor and manufacturer of sustainable laboratory equipment, best known for the iWash — a cell counter slide cleaner that replaces single-use cell counter slides, cutting plastic waste and per-test costs.

WoodSafe

Sharps & clinical waste bins

Sharps and hazardous waste bins made from a wood-based biocomposite, cutting the carbon footprint by around 66% across the full product life cycle compared with virgin plastic bins.

UniGreenScheme

Equipment reuse & resale

A UK collection, storage, reuse and resale service for laboratory equipment, extending the working life of instruments, diverting usable kit from the waste stream and giving access to affordable equipment.

Green Elephant

96-well Microplate

96-well microplates made from plant-based PLA (polylactic acid), delivering around 50% lower carbon than virgin polystyrene equivalents as a like-for-like swap that fits your existing automation.