Founded 2018
Industry
Manufacturing
Sam White
CEO
Serena Monteiro
Business Operations and Recycling Manager
Articles
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- To Tackle the Plastic Waste Crisis in Pharma, Here’s Where to Start
- Greentown cofounder looks to ramp up lab-plastics recycling business to national scale
- Veolia, MassBio partner with GreenLabs Recycling for medical waste plastics recycling
About the company
GreenLabs helps life sciences to be more sustainable by recycling its single-use plastic in Greater Boston. The company then uses the plastic it recycles as feedstock to locally manufacture a lab product that circles back to the scientists it recycles for.
About the solution
When China stopped taking US waste in 2018, traditional waste haulers stopped recycling plastic for biotechs. All of it was ending up in landfills or incinerated. GreenLabs fills that gap by recycling items such as pipette tip boxes and media bottles. It recently started to locally manufacture a Tips Transfer Bin made from 100% recycled plastic it recycles. So now, scientists know exactly what their plastic is being recycling into. GreenLabs’ hyperlocal recycling/manufacturing ecosystem happens 60 miles from the biotechs it collects the plastic from.