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>How many more bottle-washers did they have to hire? Or are they using expensive people to wash bottles? Good to get your message, it makes sense. OTOH in the
by fuzzfactor 4y ago
>How many more bottle-washers did they have to hire? Or are they using expensive people to wash bottles?
Good to get your message, it makes sense.
OTOH in the nicely appointed laboratory where the glassware cabinets are well stocked with spares, and hopefully breakage is low, by comparison there is virtually no burden from consumables as they move from trucks, to warehouses. Then delivery people streaming into the lab, days or weeks of supplies oveflowing from limited storage cabinets, and with waste removal operators following in turn.
IME there is much less of a use for disposables when the task does not need to be biologically sterile or when the cost can not be passed on to somebody like an insurance company.
In testing and research, but I'm industrial not clinical.
When I run it as a business, my clients deserve the best.
Sometimes cleaning glassware in advance and after a particular test or experiment, before returning the glassware to the shelf, needs to be routine.
Still that's only a handful of additional steps in what often amounts to a 1000-step process when you count every little thing.
And for that you've got to have chemists who take pride in every step, it's really no problem when they're already on staff.
>We observed the biggest cost savings from reducing operating times of fume hoods and cutting our use of organic solvents in the lab.
Energy is always so costly and exhaust blowers really compromise the climate control effectiveness. We have enough toxics that we depend on the constant flow of fresh air coming in to the whole lab as the hoods must stay on 24/7 with the sash at the calibrated height marked by the safety operator according to OSHA requirements.
So I've spent a lot of time over the years cutting waste in other ways since we're stuck wasting a significant amount of air-conditioning around-the-clock.
Don't get me started on organic solvents . . .