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Sustainability is more than the environment!

Sharing insights, experiences and solution for a sustainable practice in laboratories and thinking

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Biodegradable can mean compostable or needs special facilities.

Made from biological sources: the thumbnail, the bio-based Eppendorf tube = 90% food oil waste + 10% fossil materials (for quality).

Want to know what’s actually feasible for your lab?
https://t.co/8YtF0ZoT9r

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Bioplastics for the lab are finally here!

But there’s a big problem — few people actually know what bioplastics are.

Here’s what you need to know 🧵👇

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“Bioplastics” can mean many things:

Two key distinctions:
🔹 Biodegradable vs. non-biodegradable
🔹 Made from biological vs. fossil sources

Some “bioplastics” are still fossil-based.

Surprisingly, non-biodegradable biobased ones may be greener right now.

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To help, there will be a 20-min presentation + email resource:

👉 https://t.co/Fi8Aw2tble
Done properly, sustainability can save labs €2000+ and cut >50% of reagent/antibody use.

Don’t get caught off guard—funders expect this.
#GreenLab #Funding #EnvironmentalSustainability

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If you work in science, you need to adopt sustainable practices now—otherwise, you may soon lose funding.

2 of the world’s largest funders already require labs to report:
🔹 Cutting plastic waste
🔹 Reducing energy use
🔹 Traveling less

If not, applications won’t be considered

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This isn’t hypothetical.
In the UK & Germany, it’s already a reality.

Last autumn, 7 major funders pledged support for sustainability.

Wellcome Trust & CRUK even require accredited certification: a 3–6 month process.

But done wrong, it can endanger your workflow and samples!

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I’ve optimized dozens of lab workflows to be greener🌱

Skeptical? I’ll show you how in a free 20-min online talk at the biggest sustainability summit.

🎥 Register & get the recording here: https://t.co/W0V4FyqWJW

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“Sustainable practices burned down their lab!”

That’s the story I once heard. Someone stored lab waste instead of disposing of it. A fire broke out, and the stored waste fueled it.

What's the take away?⬇️

#STEM #GreenLab

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That wasn't Proper sustainable practices!

Green action doesn’t disrupt experiments or workflows.

What I have seen from them:
🔹 70% less plastic waste with smarter plating
🔹 Sterile cabinets <1 min after restart
🔹 S2 protocols optimized to save time + plastic

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Therefore, you don’t need to read 100s of pages.
One short email often tells you everything.

Want more strategies to catch greenwashing in science?

🎥 Register for our short online session + get a practical handout: https://t.co/AuYtBLcWCa

#GreenLab #STEM #PhDLife

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Quick tip to spot greenwashing:

- Some push “infinite recycling loops” that don’t exist
- Others fudge carbon accounting
- Or pretend an analysis = certification

👉 Just ask the company for details.

If claims are exaggerated, you’ll likely hear… nothing.
❌ Silence = red flag

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Something we should tell every graduate:

Uni won’t teach you to follow your❤️but it will shape your career.

After graduation, the structure disappears.
You need to forge your own path.

What I heard scientists advise: Listen to your heart it will lead you properly

Other tips?

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Still, S2O could:
Limit excessive publisher profits 💰
Finally let us read science without paywalls 🚀

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There’s a new publishing model you should know about.

🔹 Subscribe to Open (S2O)
If enough libraries keep subscribing, the journal flips to 100% open access for that year.

If not, it falls back to subscriptions + APCs.

Read more in the thread

#ScientificPublishing

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The first journal to try S2O?

👉 Annual Reviews, back in 2017.
Now, other big names like the Royal Society (UK) are adopting it too.

For scientists, if S2O works:

Free access to articles 📖
Free publishing (no APCs) ✍️
But uncertainty if it’ll stay that way each year 🤷

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The result?

✅ 45+ concrete opportunities for greener practices

What made this work?
Enthusiasm + positivity.

Here is my full list of sustainable actions: https://t.co/5It6eXLbUq

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Research labs generate tons of plastic waste every year.

But what if making science greener didn’t require extra effort from scientists? 🧪

Here’s how one of the world’s leading institutes tackled it—Leibniz-HKI 👇

@LeibnizHKI

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The Leibniz-HKI (renowned for microbiology & natural products) asked me to to consult and explore:

🔹 How to cut lab plastic waste
🔹 How instruments (HPLC, MS, PCR) can run more sustainably
🔹 How to get 400+ scientists onboard—without disrupting their work

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P.S. The thumbnail?
One of the memes I add at the end—
So people leave with a smile :)

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Writing about sustainability changed my life.
The biggest lesson?

Good things take time.

A thread for anyone who's building something from scratch 👇

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It took almost a year... we hit 900+ subscribers.
No ads. Just consistency.

We are told these days success is instant

Reminder:
Not everything works right away.
Experiments don’t. Ideas don’t.
But if you stick with it, they will.