Market Trend How Green is Your Lab?

Nowadays, organizations are striving to achieve their green goals in the background of rising climate change concerns and the scientific community is no different. With increasing awareness about their responsibility towards the environment, the community is looking to transform its labs into green labs.

Sustainability has become a core concept today for almost all of the industries across the globe. As the deadline to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is coming closer, industrial sectors are adopting numerous innovative technologies to reduce their carbon footprint. For instance, the hard-to-abate chemical industry is exploring the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology along with other smart technologies to decarbonize its overall operations. In this scenario, how are laboratories executing their green and sustainable targets? Let’s find out…

Green Labs

Laboratories are dedicated spaces which carry out scientific experiments, production of drugs or chemicals or are used for research purposes. Scientists that work in these spaces have become aware of their responsibility towards the environment and are therefore undertaking measures to operate their labs in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner. This has led to the emergence of the ‘Green Labs’ concept.