What are the benefits of in-house material renewal over external recycling?

The products in Micronic’s innovative Eco-Friendly Choice (EFC) Rack Range are made from 99% in-house renewed materials. Scrap material from the injection molding process that can be reused is carefully separated and processed. Stringent quality control ensures that no compromise is made to the material’s integrity during this renewal process, so the final product meets the highest standards of quality. The EFC Racks comply with all quality benchmarks that are on par with those made from virgin materials. Learn more about the renewal process in this blog post. But how does this process compare to external material recycling? Read on to find out.

To guarantee the highest quality in our renewed labware products, we choose to manage and separate our waste streams internally, reusing them to create new sample storage racks. This approach offers several sustainable advantages over third-party recycling:

• Reduced Transport Impact: Micronic’s scrap material is lightweight but voluminous. Recycling through a third party would involve transporting a lot of ‘air,’ which is energy intensive. Instead, we press and grind our scrap material in-house, eliminating the need for costly and wasteful transportation.
• Minimized Resource Use: Traditional third-party recycling often requires large amounts of water, cleaning agents, and energy. By handling the separation and processing ourselves, we eliminate this resource-heavy process.
• Optimized Processing: Reusing our own materials means we have full knowledge of their composition, allowing us to process them efficiently with minimal energy input.
• Superior Quality Control: The strict separation of our own scrap materials ensures that the renewed labware products maintain the same high quality as new products. We do not mix our materials with those from other companies, so we can maintain the highest standards of purity and performance.

By choosing to recycle and renew our own scrap materials, Micronic is able to produce innovative, eco-friendly, and high-quality racks. This in-house process offers distinct advantages over relying on external recycling, making it the most sustainable choice for our labware products.