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All lab practices since May 2017 are eligible for points and can be added to your score card.

Benefits Webinars, Best Practices and Resources

• Reducing energy consumption, costs, and environmental impact of the lab
• Learning and applying proper cold storage maintenance techniques to help avoid future failures
• Removing unneeded or unviable samples from cold storage units, allowing space to be consolidated or eliminated.
• Reducing costs associated with maintaining extraneous cold storage units.
• Improving researcher access to and security for viable samples.
• Developing ongoing cold storage management practices that support efficiency and maximize lab space utility.
• Awards & National recognition at the I2SL conference for the winning labs in each category

Increasing grant eligibility is another benefit according to How going green can raise cash for your lab a Nature International Journal of Science article, this quote shares an interesting perspective; Ramirez-Aguilar argues that implementing energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable lab practices can be a smart way for researchers to make their grants stand out. It might seem a small detail, but having such procedures in place could make all the difference to the success of your application. “If it makes your proposal look better,” she says, “you’re more likely to get funding.”

For more information contact Paul Foote @ gfoote2@illinois.edu F&S Energy Services

the densifier was picked up from the off-campus location at Midwest Fiber on Friday (September 22, 2017) and is currently in storage at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC)

http://cam.illinois.edu/vii/VII-b-11.htm F&S will talk with iSEE to consider edits to this policy, to incorporate reference to the new Styrecycle program.

The primary deliverable of this proposed project is to provide a detailed waste characterization assessment for three facilities located throughout the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls (LAR), Business Instructional Facility (BIF), Roger Adams Laboratory(RAL) are facilities that will be characterized.
This proposal builds upon the initial waste characterizations conducted in the Spring of 2013 for four buildings: Henry Administration Building, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, Swanlund Administration Building, and Illini Union Bookstore.
The objective of the assessments is to characterize the waste generated from a Lab building, a classroom building and a housing building. The primary goal of the waste stream characterization study is to provide UIUC with an accurate and precise baseline measurement of the solid waste generated at each facility type. ISTC will assist F&S in identifying and implementing practices and technologies that will reduce waste, increase landfill diversion, increase recycling revenues, and decrease waste disposal costs. These efforts will help UIUC to become an example of a sustainable campus, and will provide new learning and teaching opportunities for the university and community at large. The ancillary deliverables are various direct educational programing opportunities both structured as well as passive.