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Pipet Tips, Flasks and Plates: Eco-friendly Plastic in Your Green Lab

Nicole Kelesoglu November 9, 2016

So you want to use 'green' plastic labware, but news headlines about a UN environmental report has you perplexed… 'Biodegradable' Plastics Are A Big Fat Lie. Well, don't worry! Plastic labware can still be a good sustainability option

Interview with Mark Gmelin of Labcon on sustainability

Seth Levin May 29, 2015

Seth digs in deep with Labcon's Sustainability Coordinator Mark Gmelin about how one of the industry's leading manufacturers of lab usables has had an eye on sustainability - from human power, to solar power, and all the water in between - for the last 50 years.

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