UW Recycling encourages customers to purchase and recycle pipette tip boxes and trays through a vendor with its own recycling program (see below). If you are unable to recycle your pipette tip boxes and trays through the manufacturer, please dispose of your pipette tip boxes as mixed recycling and pipette tip trays as garbage.
What is acceptable in recycling
See the instructional poster (pdf) for examples.
- Rigid boxes
- Lightweight boxes
- Box lids
What is not acceptable in recycling
The following items should be placed in the garbage or recycled through the manufacturer.
- Pipettes or pipette tips
- Pipette tip trays
Manufacturers with recycling programs
- Laboratory Products Sales
Rochester, NY
Recycling program info
- Fisher Scientific
Bothell, WA
Recycling - Pipette Tip Boxes
Recycling - Pipette Tips
- USA Scientific
Ocala, FL
Recycling program info (pdf)
If you are interested in purchasing used Pipette tip racks to reduce your carbon footprint, USA Scientific can make them available to you. Please note that the receiving labs would be responsible for getting them autoclaved or cleaned to meet their individual needs.
Please contact UW Recycling for more information if needed.
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