{"id":16846,"date":"2024-05-02T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/news\/surfing-with-laboratory-plastic\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:40:04","slug":"surfing-with-laboratory-plastic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/en\/news\/surfing-with-laboratory-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing with laboratory plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Module ImageText ImageText--imageText Background Background--transparent\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"grid grid--vCenter grid--size12 grid--size6Tp grid--bigGaps\">\n            <div class=\"ImageText__imageColumn\">\n                <div class=\"ImageText__imageWrap\">\n                    \n    <picture\n        style=\"padding-top: 133.33333333333%\"         class=\"Picture ImageText__image\"\n    >\n        <img decoding=\"async\"\n                src=\"\"\n                        data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/14.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/14-400x533.jpg 400w\"                class=\"lazyload Picture__image\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            title=\"14\"\/>\n\n        \n        <noscript>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/14.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"14\"\/>\n        <\/noscript>\n    <\/picture>\n\n                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"ImageText__textWrap\">\n                                    <span class=\"Topline __topline\">Ride the wave of change!<\/span>\n                \n                <p>When we met, the atmosphere was great: &#8220;We knew immediately that it was a good fit! It actually fits really well!&#8221; When the Merijaan experts then pulled the laboratory&#8217;s waste garbage cans from left to right to find the right plastic for their purposes, it turned out that the start-up was after the boxes in which the pipette tips are packaged. Firstly, it has the necessary hardness and secondly, these boxes come in all kinds of colors.<\/p>\n<p>A workshop was held to discuss how the plastic boxes could be optimally recycled and what upcycling options were available; the result: soap dishes, rulers, snap hooks &#8211; and above all a completely recycled surfboard. &#8220;That&#8217;s what really interests young people these days,&#8221; says Katja Strunck. The idea of sustainability is simply a huge argument. And we want to support that too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so, two years ago, additional waste garbage cans were placed in the laboratories, in which only pipette tip boxes made of hard plastic end up. &#8220;And with great discipline,&#8221; Katja Strunck assures us, &#8220;because our employees think the project is great.&#8221; 100 to 110 kilos of this plastic alone are collected every month, which are shipped to Merijaan in bags through Berlin.<\/p>\n                \n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"Module TeaserColumns Background Background--autoimmundiagnostik\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n\n        \n                    <div class=\"TeaserColumns__list grid grid--size12  grid--size4T grid--size6Tp\">\n                                    <div class=\"TeaserColumns__item\">\n                        \n                                                    <div class=\"TeaserColumns__image\">\n                                \n   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And, of course, this will not be the only measure we take to promote sustainability.&#8221; With this in mind, Labor Berlin recently switched to recycled waste garbage cans &#8211; especially for so-called C-waste, which has to be incinerated directly together with the garbage can. &#8220;We collect around 5,000 C-waste containers every year,&#8221; estimates Katja Strunck, &#8220;and with our disposal company, we have now switched to a recycled product so that the plastic has been reused at least once.&#8221; Also already implemented: Labor Berlin sends cardboard boxes and polystyrene crates in which laboratory materials are delivered back to the suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>And a completely new idea being considered together with Merijaan: recycling the countless bags in which blood and tissue samples arrive at the laboratory and which are all disposed of. &#8220;That&#8217;s an unimaginable amount,&#8221; says Katja Strunck, which may soon be used to make test tube stands, for example &#8211; or merchandising items such as sandwich boards.<\/p>\n                \n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"Module Text Background Background--transparent\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n            <Header class=\"Module__header\">\n        \n                    <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7291 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ALM-Logo_web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ALM-Logo_web.png 472w, https:\/\/www.laborberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ALM-Logo_web-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><br \/>\nThe interview with Katja Strunck and other examples of sustainability projects in laboratories appeared in the Accredited Laboratories in Medicine e.V. newsletter.<\/p>\n        \n        \n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alm-ev.de\/aktivitaeten\/labor-erleben-magazin\/03-labor-in-gruen\/?utm_source=ALM+E-Mail+Verteiler&#038;utm_campaign=eec7720c90-ALM+aktuell+12%2F2019_COPY_01&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_8c3540fb3d-eec7720c90-493929389\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Button Button--secondary\">to the ALM<\/a>\n    <\/Header>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-16846","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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