Single-use plastics have often replaced more sustainable materials in microbiology
laboratories. Keeping in mind that one of the objectives of the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals is responsible consumption and production, we wanted to document
how many single-use plastic items could be saved by taking reduction and reuse
approaches in a microbiology laboratory. After taking 4 weeks to document the baseline
levels of single-use plastic waste being generated in our laboratory and identifying ways to …