Teams

Green IBDM

For sustainable science
From daily individual actions to global changes in the institute

Meet the green IBDM people

In tune with society, many laboratories in France and abroad have become aware of the need to reduce the environmental footprint of their research activities.Thus, in 2020, IBDM officially created a sustainable development working group called “Green IBDM”, whose main mission is to provide all IBDM members with practical solutions to reduce their consumption and limit the volume of their waste.

The “Green IBDM” is supported in its actions by a network of referents within the teams and technical platforms responsible for relaying the messages of the working group and ensuring compliance with the decisions taken at the institute level in favor of a more ecological research.

In parallel, the working group has put in place a methodology to monitor IBDM’s carbon footprint following the evaluation protocol proposed by Labo1point5. 

The Green IBDM committee supports the “All carpoolers“ scheme run by AMU.

Our Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions for the year 2019

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Tool Box

In order to promote concrete efforts to reduce waste and energy consumption, the GREEN IBDM committee has put together some tips to help you do cleaner and more responsible science.

Good Practices
To reduce your consumption and Limit the volume of your waste

When possible, prefer reusable glassware to plastics
Bottles can easily replace falcons for your solutions. Save waste and money
Done with them ? Turn them off!
Save energy and appliances life span !
Keep your ULT freezer at -70°C
-70 is cold enought for most samples/products kept at -80. Save energy and money
Lower the sash!
A open fume hood can use as much daily energy as 3 to 4 homes!
When possible prefer reusable glassware to plastics!
Most of the time, cylinders can replace serological pipettes
Choose your water wisely!
You don’t always need milliQ water, and very rarely autoclaved water, which waste a lot of energy
BYOB
Avoid plastic bottles, bring your own bottles and fill it instead, save wast and money
Use glass petri dishes instead of plastic ones!
Did you know ? A glass petri dish costs only 3 x a plastics one and you can use it forever
Please use filtered tips for very sensitive experiments only. They cost 3 times mores and are bought in single boxes.
Please use filtered tips for very sensitive experiments only. They cost 3 times mores and are bought in single boxes.
Defrost your freezers!
Ice igloos keep people warm. It’s the same with the ice layer in your freezer.