Sustainability
The LEAF programme
The LEAF programme improves the sustainability of laboratories at UCL and CDB is committed to 100% participation of all our labs. For enquiries, please contact the UCL LEAF Team.
Useful links:
- Free sustainability resources (UCL LEAF).
Carbon offsetting for travel
- Wellcome Trust’s Carbon Offset policy for travel.
- Lobby your funding body for funds towards carbon offsetting by emailing your grant manager.
- Read about Gabriel Waksman’s personal journey to found a charity aiming to help academics and other travelers offset their carbon emissions.
- If you are organising a conference, consider creating a grove for participants to contribute trees to.
- Likewise, if you will be attending a conference, lobby your conference to create a grove where you will be able to offset your carbon emissions.
Free and recycled materials (including lab and office furniture) at UCL
- Warp-it: reuse and recycle surplus redundant resources such as office furniture and lab equipment
- Toner recycling: Drop off toner cartridges in the box provided by Stores, Anatomy Building
- Battery disposal: Battery boxes are provided in the basement of the Anatomy Building (near Stores).