Resources and guidance
What we're doing
Keep up-to-date with the Green Labs team:
More information for staff
Please see the staff intranet for additional guidance, and general lab procedures and forms.
Management guides
Cold Storage
- Guides to attach to fridges and freezers: Freezer management guide (Office document, 192kB)
Waste, recycling and resource management
- How to manage your hazardous and non-hazardous laboratory waste
- Order recycling caddies, recycling unpacking boxes and/or Lab recycling caddie labels (PDF, 102kB) general and clinical waste (PDF, 38kB) by emailing s-labs@bristol.ac.uk. Please specify how many labels you require when ordering.
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| Lab recycling caddies (pyrex, glass, plastic, cardboard, paper, metals) | Recycling unpacking boxes |
- Order chemical signage for your lab bins
- Clinical waste audit (Office document, 26kB)
Lab Plastics
Lab equipment
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
- How to choose the correct type of containment for your research - clean air and containment decision map (PDF, 90kB)
Lab Equipment
- How to sell unwanted lab equipment that still holds value - UniGreenScheme
- Asset transfer and sale flow chart (PDF, 207kB)Asset transfer and sale flow chart (PDF, 207kB)Asset transfer and sale flow chart (PDF, 207kB)Asset transfer and sale flow chart (PDF, 207kB)
- Asset transfer and sale procedure (PDF, 406kB)Asset transfer and sale procedure (PDF, 406kB)Asset transfer and sale procedure (PDF, 406kB)Asset transfer and sale procedure (PDF, 406kB)
- UniGreenScheme - case study (PDF, 5,215kB)UniGreenScheme - case study (PDF, 5,215kB)UniGreenScheme - case study (PDF, 5,215kB)UniGreenScheme - case study (PDF, 5,215kB)
Cold Storage
- How to purchase laboratory-grade ULTs, fridges, freezers, and fridge/freezers. See the University Buyers Guide.
- Our contracted fridges and freezers: energy study. Liebherr Freezer Energy and Temperature Performance Green Light Labs 2018 (PDF, 265kB)
Stickers and posters
- Shut the sash stickers for fume cupboards: Shut the sash (1) (PDF, 98kB) and Shut the sash (2) (PDF, 1,973kB)
- Switch off stickers (PDF, 16kB) (available in widths: 5cm, 7cm and 9cm)
- Lighting switch me off sticker (PDF, 1,594kB)
- Labs water management poster (PDF, 5,727kB)
- Labs recycling and reuse poster (PDF, 8,957kB)
- Cold storage freezer poster (PDF, 5,765kB)
Please contact the Green Labs Team (green-labs@bristol.ac.uk) or your LEAF Coordinator to order stickers, please state the quantity, type and size in your email.
Inductions, exits and moves
Business Travel
Green Lab Certification
Other Sustainable Lab Programmes
- University of California Davis Green Your Lab Program
- University of California Santa Barabara LabRATS Program
- University of Colorado Boulder Green Labs Program
- Cornell University Living Laboratory Campus
- Harvard Green Labs
- Johns Hopkins University Green Lab Champions
- iGEM Goes Green
- University of Illinois at Chicago Green Labs
- University of Michigan Sustainable Lab Recognition Program
- MIT Green Labs
- Green Labs @ Penn Program
- Sustainable Stanford Cardinal Green Labs
- University of Washington Green Laboratories Program
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