Your Sustainable Future Lab Perspective

»Our goal is to manufacture laboratory consumables in a measurably more sustainable way according to the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" concept without compromising on product quality and performance.«

Since oil-based plastic consumables have replaced glass consumables, they have become irreplaceable in laboratories around the world, providing quality standards needed in increasingly demanding research. This is the growing challenge in respect to sustainability. Thus, Eppendorf not only focuses on the development of new products but also on new, more environmentally friendly manufacturing materials. We are now able to offer a comprehensive product portfolio made from bio-based plastics. Eppendorf Tubes^® BioBased, the brand new Eppendorf Safe-Lock Tubes ("Eppis^® ") BioBased, epT.I.P.S.^® BioBased pipette tips, all made from polypropylene, and Eppendorf twin.tec^® Trace PCR plates BioBased, made from polycarbonate for the frames and polypropylene for the wells. All of the plastics we use are made from recycled raw materials and certified.

Article: „Advancing Sustainable Science with Plastic Consumables made with Biobased Materials“

Neste and Eppendorf SE – two manufacturers of different products in separate industrial worlds – have joined forces to advance the topic of sustainability in the laboratory.

The mass balance approach – Certification of complex product chains in the circular economy