Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

Walk into any medical examining room, chemistry lab or clean room and you won’t have to look far to see boxes of lab gloves. They’re often racked on the wall, sometimes three or four high, where ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A simple recycling program at Purdue University shows that even the smallest gestures go a long way when it comes to sustainability. Since fall 2014, laboratories in the ...

Disposable elastic gloves are widely used in scientific laboratories and in many industries for the handling of critical surfaces. Typically, they are made from nitrile or latex rubber and provide the ...

A man tossing a blue medical glove into the trash, seen from the trash bin’s perspective. Nitrile rubber is used to make a variety of products such as gloves, but the material is difficult to recycle.