<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Absolutely Michael,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Our gloves are nitrile gloves (the white cleanroom type in the cleanroom (from OnBoard Solutions) and blue in the non-cleanroom labs (from MediFlex)).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you for the tip about Kimberly-Clark, they do not supply our cleanroom gloves, but I can still contact them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">You actually gave me the idea of contacting my local glove suppliers. Let's see what their response is. Actually it might be a really good idea to contact all our consumable suppliers and force them to implement programs to collect waste and do something useful with it. If all the cleanroom facilities and other manufacturing facilities, University labs, etc start to do this, there is going to be a point where these companies might actually do something about this issue either because they will find a financial benefit to do it or hopefully out of a sense of environmental responsibility.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Michael, can I ask you if your facility is already part of a sustainability program? Would you and your management consider starting one? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">If anyone is interested in having an informal meeting about sustainability in cleanrooms and other similar facilities, please get in touch to organise one. Or if such a meeting already exists, please share the invitation ;) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cheers from Australia!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><b>Tatiana Pinedo Rivera</b>, PhD<br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><font size="1">Nanolithography and Characterisation Team Leader</font><br><span style="font-size:x-small">Senior Process Engineer </span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><font size="1"><br>Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication </font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px">ANFF Victoria<br>151 Wellington Road, Clayton VIC 3168 Australia <br><br></span><span style="font-size:11px">P: +61 (0)3 9905 9660</span><span style="font-size:11px"><br>E: <a href="mailto:tatiana.pinedo@nanomelbourne.com" target="_blank">tatiana.pinedo@nanomelbourne.com</a><br>W: <a href="http://nanomelbourne.com" target="_blank">http://nanomelbourne.com</a></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1grGJ0x7zSGEDjFMQ_9V7yfxjLIrHtzro&revid=0B2svxH10JkpxbVE5akRHRC8rY0NKZEVkRTJtNU5VR3ZvU3dNPQ" width="200" height="75"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 12:36, Michael Yakimov <<a href="mailto:yakimom@sunypoly.edu" target="_blank">yakimom@sunypoly.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sorry I do not have an answer for you. But we at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, one of the Australian National Fabrication Facility centres are extremely interested in setting up a
similar program. We have a quite active Green Impact Team and we have been trying to make our cleanroom slightly less wasteful (for instance, we are encouraging reuse of epaks and wafer/sample carriers where possible (they were previously all going to the
bin after one use), we are also collecting Silicon waste for the first time (previously it was all going to the landfill)).</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We recently started to collect our lab (packaging) soft plastic waste but the University we are affiliated to (Monash University) can only collect soft-plastic (LDPE) of very high quality, uncontaminated,
not-dyed (only transparent), it should be slightly stretchable before it rips and should not make a crinkly noise when scrunched, no tape, no labels... </div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For our "domestic" soft-plastic collection, which we also started collecting in the kitchen area, rules are much more flexible and thankfully we in Australia have the RedCycle program which collects
all sorts of soft plastics from plastic bags to candy and chips wrappers. I wonder whether they might be able to help. </div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ideally we would like to start collecting our disposable cleanroom overshoes which are made out of a crinkly blue plastic and gloves, similar to you, we produce large amounts of this type of
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Of course things are a bit different here in Australia, but if you have received responses regarding this topic, could you please let me know?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">If you have implemented other things in the cleanroom to make your workplace a bit more sustainable, would you mind sharing some ideas? I have been thinking for a while that we should join a
group of cleanroom (or other manufacturing) facilities who have all embraced (or are trying to) a sustainable approach, if such a group exists, if it doesn't we should start one!</div>
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quantities, with the eventual goal of expanding to similar labs on campus. It has become glaringly obvious that our facility, and ones like ours, use a vast number of gloves that just end up in a landfill to decompose over the course of many years to decades.
I am hoping to start working to divert this waste stream and recycle as many gloves as we can by starting a disposable glove recycling program here at UCSB.</span></p>
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I was wondering if</span><span style="font-size:14px"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">any of your labs have looked into similar initiatives that have been or are currently successful. If so, I would be very interested to know how these programs were
started, what companies you might go </span><span style="font-size:14px">through</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> for the recycling </span><span style="font-size:14px">since</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> most public recycling centers do not process
these types of plastics, and any </span><span style="font-size:14px">ideas</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> for how to make the program financially viable (break-even, not turn a profit) rather than a drain on resources, which could lead to the eventual </span><span style="font-size:14px">failure</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> of
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