People at the Stratingh Institute are working hard to make its laboratories greener. And it has paid off: three chemistry labs were awarded a bronze level this month by the sustainable lab certification programme LEAF.  ‘The carbon footprint of the university is not caused by office space but by labs’, says Thomas Freese, chemistry PhD student and co-ordinator at FSE for the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF). Tonnes of waste consisting of plastic gloves, pipettes, and test tubes are thrown out at the UG each year and large amounts of chemical waste are produced.  ‘You publish articles in a journal called Green Chemistry’, says Freese, ‘however, you got the data … Continue reading Chemistry labs are going green: ‘The drive is in the young generations’