by Malcolm Slaney | Aug 5, 2026 | Sustainability
What the COVID Pipette Tip Shortage Taught Labs During the COVID-19 pandemic, pipette tips became an unexpected symbol of supply-chain fragility. The shortage was easy to underestimate. A pipette tip is small, inexpensive, and normally treated as an endlessly...
by Malcolm Slaney | Jul 16, 2026 | Sustainability
Closing the Loop on Pipette Tip Reuse Reducing pipette tip waste requires looking beyond the tip itself. A conventional rack of 96 pipette tips includes several plastic components: the tips, the support tray, the outer box and, in many designs, a plastic lid. Although...
by Malcolm Slaney | Jun 29, 2026 | Sustainability
Putting Pipette Tip Reuse Into Perspective A single rack of pipette tips does not look like a major source of plastic waste. But in a high-throughput lab, it is not about one rack. It is about how many times the rack is replaced. That is why reuse changes the equation...
by Malcolm Slaney | Jun 12, 2026 | Plasma Cleaning
Plasma Cleaning Does More With Less Water In a laboratory, water use is not only a utility question. Once water is mixed with cleaning chemicals, biological residues, reagents, or other process contaminants, it can become a waste-management question. Traditional...
by Malcolm Slaney | Jun 1, 2026 | Plasma Cleaning
What It Means to Turn Consumables into Operational Infrastructure Pipette tips, microplates, reservoirs, tubes, and seals are purchased, stocked, used, discarded, and reordered. They are essential to the work, but they are rarely thought of as part of the lab’s core...
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