A small sized autoclave bag can hold up to 15 litres of waste. 😳
This is equivalent to
– 1 x passaging a small number of cell culture flasks
– or changing the medium of 3 – 4 medium sized cell culture bottles.
Anyone, who has ever worked at a sterile workbench knows how quickly the autoclave bin fills up ↗️. Cell cultures around the world produce incredible amounts of plastic waste every day. 🌍🗑️
When an experiment is successful, we take the amount of waste into account, because it serves a purpose. When an experiment goes wrong, do we ever think about the amount of unnecessary waste we have produced? 🤔 15 litres, or more likely, several times that amount were once produced, transported, used, and are now wasted for nothing.
The main reason experiments fail: untrained and inexperienced operators and unsupervised students in the lab. 👎👎👎
Easy fix: Eliminate bad practices in the cell culture lab and significantly reduce the amount of unnecessary waste.
Side effect: happy students and researchers, because the experiments went well! Yeayyy! 👍☺️🤸
#Responsibility #Waste #CellCulture #GCCP #CellCultureTraining
Author: asban