Green Team Coffee Chat: Sustainable Labs with Keri Innes
Come get your sustainable lab questions answered at this informal Zoom Coffee Chat with Keri and other workplace champions on Thursday, April 17th, from 10-10:30am. Join our building community of practice to share best practices, barriers, and experiences in creating more sustainable workplaces at U-M.
Keri is a Lab Manager with the Clinical Research Specimen Processing Unit at the U-M Cancer Center. Did you know that one ULT Freezer used in research can use as much energy as an average residential home? Learn how Keri is leading her lab in reducing that energy usage by participating in the annual Freezer Challenge as well as making her lab more sustainable through specialty recycling of gloves, consolidating sample shipments, and finding new uses for spare lab consumables.