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.
Services and Technologies
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.
LabCycle Ltd services for recycling and/or closed-loop remanufacturing into lab-grade plastics, to avoid landfill or incineration. (U.K.)
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.
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.
PC Survivors of Massachusetts is R2/RIOS Certified for Responsible Recycling of Electronics/Medical/Lab Equipment including Secure Data Destruction Solutions
laboratory waste materials Guidance
EPA’s WasteWise Information and recognition for adding sustainable materials management into waste-handling processes to produce environmental and economic benefits
EPA Waste Reduction Model (WARM) tool Input your waste material type, or the recommended proxy, to calculate and totals GHG emissions of baseline and alternative waste management practices—source reduction, recycling, anaerobic digestion, combustion, composting and landfilling.
www.recycle.net Got non-contaminated material waste? Submit your buy/sell/trade listing to the recycling exchange. Use this site to discover local prices on specific materials worldwide.
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council supports the healthcare sector with advanced programs and guidance.
Hospicycle - a guide for recycling healthcare plastics
Find a local Styrofoam recycling facility in the U.S.A.
Recyclenow.com Find a local recycling center in the United Kingdom for any materials type
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Foam Recycling Coalition's Grant Program Is your facility generating enough EPS foam waste to pursue an industrial foam condenser?
Plastic film recycling.org is supported by the Flexible Film Recycling Group (FFRG) of the American Chemistry Council
Vendor Take-Back Programs
MilliporeSigma Biopharma Recycling Program for bioprocess manufacturing customers of Millipore Sigma
RightCycle by Kimberly-Clark A vendor program for nitrile glove recycling
TerraCycle - recycling company for hard-to-recycle waste