5 Ways to Reduce your lab’s environmental impact.

The Office for Sustainability’s Green Labs program encourages labs at Mines to reduce their environmental impact through energy and water conservation and waste reduction strategies. The program funds recycling of hard-to-recycle lab supplies such as nitrile gloves, plastic pipette boxes, and more. If you work in a lab and would like to learn more, contact GreenLabs@mines.edu

5 Green Labs Tips

• To reduce energy consumption - shut the sash on fume hoods
• To reduce your environmental impact, check the ACT label on your lab supplies
• To save energy, set ultra-low temperature freezers to -70 degrees instead of -80
• Register your lab for the International Freezer Challenge
• To reduce water consumption, use re-circulating water baths