Laboratory Recycling
Sending all of your laboratory electronics, gloves, single-use plastics, and foam shippers to a landfill? Check out your recycling and reuse options below.
Service Providers
RecycleLab helps science and healthcare labs reduce plastic waste by transforming used lab consumables into reusable resources. Their recycling service diverts plastics from incineration, supporting a circular economy while making lab sustainability easy and cost-effective. (London, U.K.)
Conigliaro Industries is a recycling service that specializes in difficult-to-recycle materials like EPS foam shippers, borosilicate glassware, and plastic wrap films. (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Polycarbin offers closed-loop lab plastics, including a mail-back service or on-site service, with carbon footprint reduction tracking and the Closed-Loop Collection of lab consumables made from scientific plastics. (U.S.A.)
GreenLabs Recycling collects, processes and recycles #1PET and #5PP clean plastic locally, giving the material a second life and preventing it from going to landfills or incineration facilities. (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
LabCycle Ltd services for recycling and/or closed-loop remanufacturing into lab-grade plastics, to avoid landfill or incineration. (U.K.)
Triumvirate Environmental - waste management, Red2Green - recycling a regulated medical waste stream available in the U.S.A.
Clean Waste Systems - Ozone sterilization technology that completely sterilizes biohazardous waste with zero emissions.
Save that Stuff - A Massachusetts-based, zero-waste-capable recycling service that collects non-contaminated laboratory waste
Strategic Materials - recycling glass service with 39 U.S.A. locations with the capability to recycle borosilicate glass.
Vendor Take-Back Programs
Starlab TipOne Recycling Scheme enables users to recycle empty racks from the TipOne® pipette tips systems to produce new racks, free of charge.
MilliporeSigma Biopharma Recycling Program for bioprocess manufacturing customers of Millipore Sigma
RightCycle by Kimberly-Clark nitrile glove recycling
TerraCycle - recycling company for hard-to-recycle waste
On-site technologies to facilitate laboratory recycling
GENERATIONS from the Envetec is an innovative, low energy, non-thermal, clean technology that life science facilitates can use to transform the treatment of biohazardous laboratory waste into a net zero process directly at the source.
TCG / Thermal Compaction Group has developed a range of products that contribute to the circular economy by reducing waste volume through recovery and reuse. TCGs products are focused on processing single-use plastics thus reducing the amount ending up in landfill, incineration, or worse.