Tips for Trees – New Refill System from Alpha Laboratories

Fastrak^® is an ingenious pipette tip refill system that minimizes waste, saves time and space and helps you to lower your carbon footprint.

Compared with other tip refill systems it is smaller, lighter and uses less packaging. Its production is eco-friendly all the way, using renewable, fully recyclable materials, non-toxic vegetable inks and solar power.

Fastrak also offers a unique added bonus that helps further support environmental sustainability. By collecting the Laboratree stickers on each Fastrak box users can get a tree planted in their name in local woodlands. To date 1000 trees have been planted throughout the UK and the scheme is greatly valued by contributors.

Chris Coleman, Medical School Stores Manager at the University of Nottingham tells us “We strongly believe in encouraging sustainability in the supply chain, so welcome Alpha’s Laboratree scheme as an excellent way of promoting regeneration of our woods and forests. The Stores coordinates involvement in the scheme for the Medical School, and has so far contributed to the planting of 55 trees in woodlands such as Penguin Wood in Leicestershire.”

Derek Connolly at National Milk Laboratories says, “We chose Fastrak due to the quality of the tips, the price, the time saved refilling tip boxes plus the added bonus of helping the environment with the Laboratree scheme. Our lab team think it is rewarding and actively participate in ensuring they retrieve the stickers from the boxes so that we can grow our “own” mini forest. I think the Laboratree scheme is valuable and should be supported as laboratory work can be frustrating with how much non-recyclable material is produced, so if we can help the environment in any way we should.”

The high quality Fastrak tips are made from non-cytotoxic, medical grade, 100% virgin polypropylene. Each batch is always tested and certified for extractables (RNase,DNase and human DNA) to ensure no interference in PCR or DNA work. Sterile refills are also tested for endotoxin contamination.

Fastrak tips are available in a wide range of sizes and options. Most are ‘Ultrafine’ with a uniquely thin and flexible top that fits the pipette cone like a glove. They are designed to fit most major pipette brands. Each batch is thoroughly tested on the pipettes for which they are designed to be used - your assurance of accuracy and precision with your pipette, time after time. The tips also include an unbevelled point that is so precise you can easily expel the tiniest amount of sample.