Wasting Away
The maximum fill level for soft biologic waste bags.
What is 2/3 full?
This equipment pulls air and particulates away from users, filtering contaminated air through a HEPA filter.
What is a BSC or tissue culture hood?
This is the labeling required to be on all chemical bottles in the lab.
What is full product name and hazard warning?
The 3 R's of the Green Labs Initiative.
What are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle?
This ORS team member has a schnoodle named NoHo Hank! (any Barry fans?!)
Who is Megan Joyce?
This is how you would dispose of waste reagents from phenol-chloroform extractions.
What is as a hazardous chemical liquid through ORS?
This equipment offers a clean environment to protect samples, but will not protect personnel.
What is a laminar flow hood?
This is the process on disposing of empty chemical bottles.
What is triple rinse, defacing the label and recycling?
If hazardous you must collect the first rinse!
All of these items (cardboard, uncontaminated pipette tip boxes, clean glass or plastic bottles) can all be what (R)? Which is good for the environment and minimizes combustibles.
What is Recycled?
This ORS team member is from Saudi Arabia and has traveled to 35 different states in the US
Who is Amal Alghamdi?
This is how you would dispose of a needle used to inject a mouse.
TRUE/FALSE: BSC are designed so that two people can work in the cabinet at one time.
What is FALSE?
When I see a pictogram with a skull and crossbones, I know I am working with this type of chemical
What is a toxic chemical?
Scaling down experiments whenever possible is an example of what (R)?
What is Reduce?
This ORS team member has been in winds so strong they were picked up and thrown ~20 feet (as a child).
Who is James Pharr?
This is where you would dispose of a conical tube containing lysed cells suspended in 70% ethanol.
What is chemical waste (media and ethanol) AND sharps container (conical tube)?
Bonus: you can keep everything in the same container and send all out as chemical waste.
TRUE/FALSE: BSCs can filter hazardous chemicals through the HEPA filter.
What is FALSE?
Improper storage of chemicals can lead to this.
Repurposing old chemical containers for waste collection bottles is an example of what (R)?
What is Reuse?
This ORS member has double the amount of animals in their house to people!
Who is Amber Kakley?
This is where you would dispose of fixed human kidney sample on a glass slide.
What is in the sharps container?
This is how much space you should be "undisturbed" behind and around the BSC to protect the aircurtain.
What is 40 inches?
This is the only "chemical" that ORS allows off-gassing to occur as a form of disposal.
What is dry ice?
This new resource is where ORS will post unwanted/unused equipment and supplies.
What is the CHOP Research Staff Community Slack channel?!
This ORS team member has lived in 7 different states.
Who is Steve Frost?