Sustainability

As a sub-organization of the BMC Green, we implement relevant local changes that are applicable to the laboratories in our institute. Specifically, we focus on raising awareness and reducing consumption of energy, water, plastic materials as well as toxic reagents. To raise awareness, we introduce a sustainable action of the month (SAM) every month as a means to provide information and offer locally applicable solutions to reduce our consumption. For instance, closing the sashes of biological safety cabinets can reduce energy consumption significantly and prolong the lifetime of the ventilator (further details and other past SAMs are described in the following section). Precisely because research requires tremendous amounts of energy, water and other resources, it is our mission to find alternative solutions to reduce our environmental impact.

Please do not hesitate to contact us via email (grinim.bmc@gmail.com) if you would like to join our team. We are also grateful for your feedback and suggestions in person.

The My Green Lab Certification program provides scientists with actionable ways to make their daily work in the laboratories more sustainable, to reduce costs and to preserve resources. It awards laboratories and research institutions that are driven to reduce their environmental impact for their efforts and helps them to keep their actions going as well as to implement more meaningful measures.

Recognized by the United Nations Race to Zero campaign as a key measure of progress towards a zero-carbon future, My Green Lab Certification is considered the gold standard for laboratory sustainability best practices around the world.

So far, more than 3.400 laboratories worlwide participated in the program. Within the LMU we are among the first institutes who received this certification.