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For industry professionals, commercial laboratories, and private sector researchers.
For students, university researchers, non-profits, and government professionals.
This course educates and informs you of simple yet effective ways to curtail wasted resources in laboratories while enabling cutting-edge research through sustainable practices and systems.
Course overview:
This module covers three key areas:
- Understanding Waste Streams: Types, disposal systems, and impacts
- Reduction Strategies: Solutions for consumables, hazardous materials, packaging, and e-waste
- Implementation: Team formation, organization, auditing, and training
Through this module, you’ll learn to identify waste sources, implement effective reduction systems, navigate regulations, measure progress, and build a sustainability culture in your laboratory.
Key learning outcomes:
- Identify different waste streams in laboratory environments
- Implement effective reduction and recycling systems
- Navigate regulatory requirements while improving sustainability
- Measure progress and demonstrate environmental improvements
- Build a culture of waste consciousness in scientific settings.
Introduction
- Categories of Waste in the Lab
- What Happens to Our Waste?
- Methods for Addressing Waste
- Stakeholders
- (1 Quiz)
Categories of lab waste
- Consumables (3 Topics)
- Hazardous Waste (2 Topics)
- Packaging Waste (2 Topics)
- E-Waste
- (1 Quiz)
Bringing it all together
- Forming a Team
- Lab Organization
- Waste Audits
- Training and Signage
- (1 Quiz)
Ready to become a laboratory waste management expert?
Take the first step toward reducing your lab’s environmental footprint. Purchase this module individually or with the complete AP program for maximum savings.