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...
by Malcolm Slaney | May 18, 2026 | Sustainability
Which Lab Consumables Are Most Exposed to Resin Market Risk? Plastic labware is often treated as a stable, predictable operating expense. A lab orders tips, plates, tubes, reservoirs, and seals because the work requires them. But behind that routine purchasing process...
by Malcolm Slaney | May 4, 2026 | Plasma Cleaning
Why Microplates Are Built for Reuse Microplates sit at the center of modern lab workflows. They are everywhere: screening, assays, storage, analysis, and yet they’re still treated as single-use consumables. That assumption is starting to break. Not because labs...
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