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Reuse of consumable pipette tips for large-scale trace analysis of contaminants of emerging concern in wastewater

Environmental Sustainability 2025 2 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Annalicia Vaughan, Yassir El Hadri, Juditha Gurumurthy, William Francis, Michael P. White, Eric Auyang, Stephanie Wright, Leon Barron, Helena Rapp-Wright

Summary

Researchers demonstrated that pipette tips used in trace chemical analysis can be safely cleaned and reused by washing with a 50:50 ethanol-water solution, reducing plastic laboratory waste without compromising analytical performance for emerging contaminants in wastewater.

Polymers
Body Systems
Study Type Environmental

This study shows that solvent-based washing enables safe pipette tip reuse for trace chemical analysis, with EtOH : H 2 O (50 : 50, v/v) providing the best balance of cleaning, and sustainability, reducing plastic waste without performance loss.

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