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"We find that purchases dominate laboratory emissions, accounting for more than 50% of emissions, with a median of 2.7 t CO2e/pers, which is 3 to 4-fold the separate contribution from travel, commutes and heating"

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biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

@cyrilpedia in my lab we have so much single-use plastic equipment… and all the packaging…. If not contaminated it’s supposedly recycled but still, it makes me really sad. At least we have reusable gowns- in another lab I was they were also single use! 😱

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