{"id":8739,"date":"2022-06-13T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/tw\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8739"},"modified":"2022-06-13T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T05:19:21","slug":"can-science-break-its-plastic-addiction","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/tw\/can-science-break-its-plastic-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Can science break its plastic addiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"standfirst\" class=\"article__standfirst\">Gloves, sample tubes, bottles and vials \u2013 the world\u2019s labs produce millions of tonnes of waste each year. Alice Bell meets the scientists who are finding\u00a0less polluting ways to work.<\/h4>\n<aside class=\"article__aside\">\n<div class=\"article__aside__section article__share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--text\">\n<p>Lucy Gilliam has an infectious passion for environmental action. Today, she works in Brussels on environmental transport policy. But in the early 2000s, she was a molecular microbiologist in Hertfordshire. Like many in her field, Gilliam got through a lot of disposable plastics. It had become a normal part of 21st-century science, as everyday as coffee and overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Gilliam was, in her words, a \u201csuper high user\u201d of the sort of plastic, ultra-sterilised filter pipettes that could only be used once. Just as so many of us do in our domestic lives, she found she was working with what anti-pollution campaigners call a \u201cproduce, use, discard\u201d model. The pipettes would pile up, and all that plastic waste just seemed wrong to her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--text\">\n<p>Science\u2019s environmental impact had begun to worry her. It wasn\u2019t just a matter of plastics. She also wanted to know why there weren\u2019t solar panels on the roof of the new lab building, for example, and why flying to conferences was seen more as a perk than a problem. \u201cI used to bitch about it over coffee all the time,\u201d Gilliam tells me. \u201cHow can it be that we\u2019re researching climate science, and people are flying all over the place? We should be a beacon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She tried to initiate recycling programmes, with some success. She invited the suppliers in to discuss the issue, and worked out ways the research teams could at least return the boxes pipettes came in for re-use, even if the pipettes themselves would still be used and discarded. It felt like a battle, though. Sensing that progress was likely to be slow, she started to ask herself where exactly she could make change happen, and moved to work in environmental policy.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific research is one of the more hidden users of disposable plastics, with the biomedical sciences a particularly high-volume offender. Plastic petri dishes, bottles of various shapes and sizes, several types of glove, a dizzying array of pipettes and pipette tips, a hoard of sample tubes and vials. They have all become an everyday part of scientific research. Most of us will never even see such equipment, but we all still rely on it. Without it, we wouldn\u2019t have the knowledge, technologies, products and medicines we all use. It is vital to 21st-century lives, but it is also extremely polluting.<\/p>\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>How to reduce your lab\u2019s plastic waste \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebiologist.rsb.org.uk\/biologist\/158-biologist\/features\/2072-how-to-reduce-your-lab-s-plastic-waste\">David Kuntin\u2019s guide in\u00a0<em>The Biologist<\/em><\/a>\u00a0about the work they\u2019ve done in York to cut their plastic waste.<\/li>\n<li>Orb Media\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orbmedia.org\/stories\/Invisibles_plastics\/\">deep dive into \u201cinvisible\u201d plastic waste<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/response.restoration.noaa.gov\/about\/media\/how-big-great-pacific-garbage-patch-science-vs-myth.html\">How Big Is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a>? Useful myth-buster from the US\u00a0National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Office of Response and Restoration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencehistory.org\/the-history-and-future-of-plastics\">The History and Future of Plastics<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 overview from the Science History Institute.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/lifestyle\/wellness\/1990\/11\/27\/the-strange-story-of-surgical-gloves\/a4b63531-1b0a-4799-ae13-24ec3f2c33d1\/\">The strange history of surgical gloves<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/sustainable\/change-possible-strategy-sustainable-ucl-2019-2024\">UCL\u2019s new sustainability strategy<\/a>, launched October 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 750px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.visual-paradigm.com\/share\/book\/can-science-break-its-plastic-addiction-zi5ylzgbe?enforceShowPromotionBar=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8745,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Design flipbooks online. 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