Overall Rating Reporter - expired
Overall Score
Liaison Andy Mitchell
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2011
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University of Illinois Chicago
Tier2-4: Chemical Reuse Inventory

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Cynthia Klein-Banai
Associate Chancellor for Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Has the institution implemented a campus-wide inventory system to facilitate the reuse of laboratory chemicals?:
Yes

A brief description of the program:

UIC's Environmental Health and Safety Office operates the Chemical Redistribution Program which helps avoid purchase costs, reduce disposal costs, and minimize waste generation.

Additionally, the Environmental Health and Safety Office is in the process of implementing a solvent recycling program on campus. Laboratories will be able to distill solvents to a grade pure enough for reuse. By reusing the solvents, there will be cost savings from reduced new solvent purchases and reduced hazardous waste disposal costs will be realized. Further, there will be reduced emissions from transportation of the virgin and waste materials since they will form a closed loop on campus.
This list of chemicals is only accessible to the UIC campus community.


The website URL where information about the practice is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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