Water & Waste
This limits water usage within the lab.
What is low-flow aerators?
Sash __ impacts energy consumption by fume hoods.
What is Height/Level?
This system manages our lab inventory.
What is CisPro?
This animal maintains the land around our solar field.
These individuals are the sustainability leads for Sustainability in the Mount Vernon Quality Control Lab.
What is John Gentry & Morgan Skyles?
Name three recycling streams offered by the QC Lab.
What is Cardboard, Plastic, Electronics, Batteries, Columns, Paper, etc.
This is used to prevent volatiles from entering our vacuum pumps.
What is trap lines?
Here at Mount Vernon QC, we utilize the "__ __, __ __" policy for our materials.
First in, First out
This initiative is to reduce Green House Gas Emissions from our global operations.
What is Ambition Zero Carbon?
What is room temperature?
This is utilized to minimize e-waste.
What is cloud-based file storage?
This program guides chemists to lower energy usage on equipment throughout the lab.
What is Switch Off Optimization Plan or SWOOP?
We have removed ourselves from ___ mailing lists to reduce waste.
What is vendor?
Name two of the three interconnected priorities for sustainability at AstraZeneca.
What is
Access to Healthcare
Environmental Protection
Ethics & Transparency
ULT Freezers have been increased to what temperature to save energy?
What is -70 degrees Celsius?
We recently eliminated scintillation vials from the XXR Dapa sample preps. State approximately how many vials we eliminated per week on average.
What is 300 vials? Or 3 boxes
UV light sterilization is used here.
Name the MOST RECENT task to be converted to 1Lab.
We have won the "Top Biotech/Pharma Award" in 2023 & 2024 for this competition
What is the Freezer Challenge?
Last fall, the Mili-Q water systems were upgraded.
State how much more efficient the new systems are (as a percentage).
What is 35%?
When open, fume hoods consume as much energy as ___ ___ per year?
What is 3.5 Homes?
Name two digital enhancements within the lab.
What is LC mainentance, Bohle dashboard, Tablets, Scanners, etc?
There are 12 Principles of Green Chemistry. Name four.
1.Pollution Prevention
2.Design for Energy Efficiency
3.Atom Economy
4.Less Hazardous Chemical Synthesis
5.Safer Solvents & Auxiliaries
6.Design Safer Chemicals
7.Use Renewable Feedstocks
8.Minimize the potential for accidents
9.Avoid Chemical Derivatives
10.Prevent Waste
11.Design Chemicals/products to degrade after use
12.Use catalysts not stoichiometric reagents
There are four major sustainability events throughout the year. Name two.
What is My Green Labs Survey, Freezer Challenge, SWOOP Challenge, Green Kaizen