green labs
The new CU Green Labs surplus website makes it easy for researchers to exchange reusable lab items, save money, reduce waste and support furthering research across campus.
Every year at the April Campus Sustainability Summit theÌýÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Green Labs Award Program recognizes ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ lab members, campus groups and departments for their remarkable actions and commitments to advance sustainability in the science community.
After removing 800+ lab items and 1,000+ chemicals last summer, CU Green Labs is bringing its Lab Cleanup Event back to help researchers refresh spaces and reuse resources.
The University of Colorado is again taking a leadership role in promoting energy efficiency.
Repairing equipment saves funds and benefits climate action by reducing scope 3 emissions at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ.
TheÌýDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering has an Instrument Shop to serve the needs of researchers in any department or college.
Chemistry labs at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ are using fewer toxic chemicals, less material, and shifting how students learn. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ chancellor and Department of Chemistry chair signed the Green Chemistry Commitment in 2025.
A Chemical Sharing Initiative, launched by Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) and the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Green Labs Program, will help labs reduce the need to purchase chemicals, save research funding, and the time needed to acquire chemicals.
Over 800 laboratory items and over 1000 chemicals were removed from lab spaces during a recent lab cleanup effort. In summer 2025, the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Green Labs Program led a Lab Clean-up Pilot event in three large campus lab buildings (Ramaley, Porter, and Gold) in collaboration with key campus partners (Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), Property Services, Property Accounting, property managers, building managers, and researchers).
Thousands of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ glassware items found a new home in local public school classrooms, supporting over 6,200 students!
Did you know that thousands of students pass through ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ General Chemistry Teaching Labs every semester? As a result, small actions for efficiency by each student adds up to large impacts. The staff of the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ General Chemistry Teaching Lab Program have been paying attention to find and implement modifications for sustainability in the teaching labs.