#Sustainability#lablife
Contemplating energy consumption after my training course on ESD (education for sustainability development): #Drosophila stock keeping require monthly labour, food resources and energy, cryogenic procedure are developing to reduce these, with the recovery rate still improving. For #cell culture lab, do you have a figure on the difference between continuous cell passage VS cryogenics storage? Intuition is the latter is better with energy, but do we have data for this?
My major objection to these measures is: reducing lab travel by one single overseas flight by one lab member does more, as far as I understand, than all these wet lab energy saving measures combined.
@albertcardona I see, still interested in understanding the waste reduction aspects of it, the only facility I have being, that uses glass to fly stock keeping is #DeptGeneticsCambridge; seeing bags after bags of old fly plastic vials going into incineration is just nerving for me (most of other places do not have staff salaries for glass cleaning)
Indeed, this is an issue that can't be ignored. If the plastic was at least buried, the CO2 wouldn't end up in the atmosphere.
My point here is about bang for the buck, about effectiveness. Almost everything we do, our very existence as scientists, is a CO2-emitting affair. The question is then how to best minimize our impact while still attending to all other demands on our time. Cutting on travelling is an obvious one.
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