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  • Centre for Sustainable Solutions
  • Monthly Spotlight Archive
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Dec 2020 - Pioneering Sustainable Labs
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Dec 2021 - Zero Carbon Shelters for Impoverished Communities
  • Sustainability Spotlight, COP26 and the Centre for Sustainable Solutions
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Oct 2021 - Active Commuting in Scotland: Co-Benefits of Green Travel
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Sep 2021 - City Clocks Group: Sustaining Urban Ecosystems
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Aug 2021 - Sustainable Futures Global Network
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Jul 2021 - dataARC: Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Jun 2021 - SOLSPACE: Solar Reflectors for Clean Energy
  • Sustainability Spotlight, May 2021 - The World Plus Three Degrees
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Apr 2021 - The Circular Fashion Ecosystem Project
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Mar 2021 - UofG Sustainable Business Travel Guidance
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Feb 2021 - Diversity and Division in Urban Neighbourhoods
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Jan 2021 - UofG e-Bike Fleet
  • Sustainability Spotlight, Dec 2020 - Pioneering Sustainable Labs
  • Sustainability Spotlight, November 2020 - A Student Led Climate Course
  • Sustainability Spotlight, October 2020 - The Power of Sweat
  • Sustainability Spotlight, September 2020 - Sustainable Tenements
  • Sustainability Spotlight, August 2020 - Guddling About

Sustainability Spotlight, Dec 2020 - Pioneering Sustainable Labs

III Eco Group Silver Award

Modern laboratories have huge carbon footprints compared to other workplaces of a similar size. It is essential that steps are taken to improve efficiency and reduce waste and energy use to minimise the environmental impact of laboratory work.

The Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation (III) eco-group was founded in MVLS in 2016, and includes PhD students, research staff and technicians. Since its inception, the group has introduced several initiatives aimed at reducing their environmental impact, including the introduction of laboratory recycling, electricity usage audits, shared chemical lists, and electronic laboratory notebooks. Through this work they have reduced their carbon footprint by 86.7 tonnes CO2 annually on one floor of their building alone and as a result received a Silver Award from the LEAF Lab Sustainability Award Programme. This success was supported by a GUEST student intern specialising in S-labs.

To engage with the wider academic community, they have set up a Twitter account (@ECOgroup_III), and have presented posters and talks at various away days and scientific conferences.

Moving into 2021, the UofG Chancellor's Fund has awarded the College of Science and Engineering a small fund to build on this work by increasing capacity to expand sustainable laboratories across the campus. Led by Prof Jaime Toney, the Centre's Director, in collaboration with Stewart Miller (UofG Sustainable Environment Officer), GUEST, and technicians Ali Salik, Charlotte Slaymark and Mark Wildman, this project will include two secondments for lab technicians, development of S-labs training provision and communications packs, and laboratory audits using the LEAF framework. Watch this space for more news in the New Year!

Photo of III Eco Group receiving their Silver LEAF Award, courtesy of the news item on their win.

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