Sustainability

CDB strives towards making our department as environmentally sustainable as possible.

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).