Labs generate significant waste, from single-use plastics and packaging to solvents, consumables, and unused supplies. In this article, My Green Lab explores practical strategies to help laboratories better understand their waste streams, reduce materials before they enter the lab, reuse resources where possible, and approach recycling as part of a broader waste reduction strategy. Learn how verified product data, smarter procurement, supplier engagement, and cross-functional collaboration can help labs reduce waste in ways that can be implemented now and maintained over time.
Freezers may be among the biggest energy consumers in labs, but small changes can deliver a big impact. Adjusting setpoints to -70°C, maintaining seals, organizing inventory, and removing unused samples can significantly reduce energy use, costs, and environmental footprint. Explore more best practices and take action by joining the 2026 Freezer Challenge to track your lab’s progress!
In this collaborative piece between My Green Lab and SciSure, we explore how fragmented lab data can limit sustainability progress. By connecting data across inventory, energy, waste, and equipment through platforms like SciSure, labs can gain greater visibility, reduce inefficiencies, and turn everyday operations into measurable, data-backed sustainability impact.
Milestone is helping support more informed laboratory procurement with ACT Ecolabel certification across a range of their microwave digestion and mercury analysis systems.
The My Green Lab ACT Ecolabel is the world’s premier ecolabel for laboratory products. It provides clear, third-party verified sustainability data on a product’s environmental impact across key factors like manufacturing, energy use, water consumption, packaging, and more.
Interested in bringing the ACT Ecolabel into your product portfolio? Reach out to learn more:
EU Green Transition Directive: What You Need to Know
The EU’s new Green Transition Directive, enforceable from September 2026, introduces stricter rules on sustainability claims and ecolabels to combat greenwashing. Companies must ensure all environmental claims are substantiated and that ecolabels are independently verified and transparent.
With implications across marketing, product development, and supply chains, now is the time to review and align your practices to maintain compliance and market access.
My Green Lab Certification now has a dedicated track for pilot plants, optimizing the world’s most trusted green lab certification for environments where process development and manufacturing intersect. Purpose-built with input from pilot plant sustainability experts across leading pharma companies, this track is designed specifically for GMP and GLP pilot plants in pharma, contract services organizations, and academia, including large molecule/biologics and small molecule/API settings.
With new question sets covering Large Equipment, Cleaning, Waste Discharge, Stockrooms, and Process Development & Manufacturing, this track gives cross-functional teams a structured pathway to reduce environmental impact, engage staff, and identify practical sustainability improvements tailored to the realities of pilot plant operations.
My Green Lab Attendees: James Swinyard, Senior Director of Investments & Partnerships, Elliott Martin, Market Development Representative, and Scott Weitze, VP of Research & Technical Standards
My Green Lab Attendees:James Connelly, CEO, James Swinyard, Senior Director of Investments & Partnerships, and Elliot Martin, Market Development Representative
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