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Environment and energy

Leading by example: going green in the lab

03 Jun 2019
Taken from the June 2019 issue of Physics World.

With so much research focused on creating technologies that reduce our collective carbon footprint, the embarrassing realization that research labs themselves are some of the worst environmental offenders is only now starting to sink in. Benjamin Skuse examines the problem and what is being done to solve it

Lab environmental campaigns
(Courtesy: Clockwise from top left: Harvard University; University of Cambridge; University of Bristol; My Green Lab; UBC)
Walk into the clean, sterile environment of a typical laboratory, with equipment neatly arranged and

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Benjamin Skuse is a freelance science writer based near Bristol, UK, e-mail bskusescicomm@gmail.com
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