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Do you work in a lab in Charlottesville, VA that uses pipette boxes made from #5 plastic? If so... we would love to work with you! We are currently working with 10 labs at UVA to collect these pipette boxes, and now that we have our processing operations down... we want more! Keep reading to learn about how easy - and impactful(!) working with us could be!
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We are JunkLabz, a non-profit startup specializing in plastic recycling. Unlike current recycling collection centers in Charlottesville, we complete the entire process in house! We clean, shred, melt, and transform plastic waste into small plastic tiles, and are in the process of designing larger furniture pieces made entirely from recycled plastic! 100% of the plastic waste we use currenly comes from our 10 lab partners in Cville. To date we have diverted over 550 lbs of plastic from these labs!
WHY PIPETTE TIP BOXES (AND PIPETTE TIP BOXES ONLY)?
We specialize in the pipette tip boxes we collect from research labs because of their:
Monotype (#5)
Plastic
Clean, Sterile Material
Uniform Size and Shape
A Variety of Colors
These characteristice help us to streamline our process as we develop and grow into a larger scale recycling facility, eventually expanding our collection. Also, there are currently no facilities in Charlottesville, VA that collect or recycle #5 plastic, we are the only one!
WHAT WORKING WITH US LOOKS LIKE...
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After onboarding you are connected with a JunkLabz point of contact who will contact you about pick-ups and is available to answer any questions you may have​
02.
Your lab is given a personalized pipette tip box pickup bag (additional bags available upon request) to collect/store the pipette tip boxes in your lab
03.
Collection scheduling is set up so you can email us when your assigned bin is filled. We will then schedule a time and pickup location to grab the plastic
04.
We track plastic collection from your lab! (How much plastic weight we have collected from your lab +the weight of plastic successfully diverted)​
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We offer tours of our space (including a full overview of our process) to anyone interested in learning more about how recycling works at JunkLabz
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Seems pretty cool right! Post the initial onboarding, all you and your lab need to do is store the used pipette tip boxes and hand them off to us at pickup time! Then, watch your positive impact increase through our data tracking system as we recycle more and more of your plastic waste.
If you are interested… we ask that you fill out the following interest form below. Once
it is submitted one of our team members will be in touch about if we think
you're a good fit or not!