Alpha Laboratories’ pipette tips achieve ACT Environmental Impact Factor labelling

Alpha Laboratories Ltd. has announced that its eco-conscious pipette tip products, Fastrak^® and FastZAP™ have received third party verification from My Green Lab^®. ACT certification emphasizes Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency around manufacturing, energy and water use, packaging, and end-of-life. This makes it easier for labs to choose more sustainable products, by looking for those with lower ACT scores.

Developed with sustainability as a priority, the Fastrak and FastZAP pipette tip refills received very low environmental impact scores (1.0) for manufacturing. This was achieved due to the energy, water, and waste reduction programmes of the production facility, plus, the on-site solar energy system that can produce anywhere from 800,000 to 1.2 million kWh of renewable energy annually.

Fastrak product and packaging content also scored 1.0 since the products have been dematerialized and are manufactured using raw materials that contain biobased content as defined by ASTM D6866 and/or pre-consumer recycled content. The cardboard packaging contains recycled content, resulting in up to 80% by weight of sustainable content in the overall packaging system, depending on the specific product. Alpha Laboratories offers its UK customers a plastic recycling scheme, thus end of life also received a score of 1.0.

Most notable was the –1 score for Innovative Practices due to Alpha Lab's LaboraTree tree planting scheme, that is available to all users of Fastrak or FastZAP tips.

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