The American Chemical Society (ACS) is committed to the health and safety of both humans and the environment in all operations of the chemical enterprise Regulations that support the protection of the ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

Daily solvent use is pretty much a given in a synthetic chemistry lab. In academic laboratories, it’s such an ingrained part of research that chemists might forget that solvents can be serious safety ...

An epicenter of groundbreaking research, the University of Wisconsin constantly produces new findings in many areas, from chemistry to plant pathology. But while these labs vary in research topics, ...

The LabRATS (Laboratory Resources, Advocates, and Teamwork for Sustainability) program at UCSB is driving the conversion of several campus labs to condensers that operate on a “closed loop” ...

The UTSA Hazardous Waste Management Program is administered by Laboratory Safety and Compliance LS&C. Each member of the University community, however, is responsible for the proper management of ...

Hazardous waste as defined by the EPA is waste that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, gases, or sludges. All hazardous ...

A student-led program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is tackling one of the most overlooked sources of plastic pollution: laboratory waste, as reported by UCSB News. Kaili Mikami and ...

The methods of pathogen/pathology determination require the generation of Hazardous Wastes. Some processes are mostly automated, as in Histology, though there is no substitute for a good Histologist ...