Harvard Green Labs initiative provides tips for conserving energy and reducing waste.

Items we won’t use can be made available to other labs via the Labs Reuse List.

Used Millipore water purifier filters should be placed in the lab’s Satellite Accumulation Area for waste (i.e., in the fume hood) with a tag on them. EH&S should then be contacted to request pickup for recycling the filters.

Key tips:

• Shut the fume hood when not in use.
• Turn off equipment at the end of the work day, when possible.
• Use your own coffee cup and water bottle whenever possible.
• Put recyclable items in the blue bins (paper, small cardboard, coffee cups, milk cartons, juice boxes, plastics #1-7, unbroken glass, aluminum cans, alumminum foil and trays).

The Longwood Campus “Reuse Room” (a.k.a. the “Freecycle Room”) is open weekly on Wednesdays from 12:30-2pm and is staffed by volunteers. It’s located on the HSPH loading dock, which can be accessed either by crossing the loading dock area from the HMS side to the HSPH, or from the Kresge building into Building 1 down to the basement level. From HSPH there are signs on the walls showing the way to the Reuse Room. The room accepts:

• lab supplies
• office supplies
• empty, clean Styrofoam coolers with return address labels and postage affixed (i.e. New England Biolabs, Sigma Aldrich, and other vendors with take-back programs)
• New England Biolabs gel ice packs
• small electronic wasteFor larger lab equipment, or anything with a capital equipment sticker, please contact the Capital Equipment Program for authorization before donating it (sciequip_admin@fas.harvard.edu).