Meet the Bursars: Summer 2025. Katherine Hesse is a bursar from Dublin currently completing her third year studying Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Her bursary, titled Improving Green Chemistry…... Meet the Bursars: Summer 2025. Katherine Hesse is a bursar from Dublin currently completing her third year studying Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Her bursary, titled Improving Green Chemistry ...

Nice video of a Trinity College Dublin student detailing a Summer scholarship program project in Green Chemistry in the Marine Institute.

Students are the drivers of future practices and work like this is valuable to embed green principles.

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Impact of nanoplastics on Alzheimer 's disease: Enhanced amyloid-β peptide aggregation and augmented neurotoxicity - PubMed Nanoplastics, widely existing in the environment and organisms, have been proven to cross the blood-brain barrier, increasing the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD)....

This article highlighting the link between nano plastics and Alzheimers progression severely underpins the need to move to greener alternatives.

#getgreener #greenlabs #sustainibility

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Environmental behaviours and risk perception of domestic consumers: Refrigeration equipment case study European citizens believe they can play a role in protecting the environment through changes in how they buy, consume, and separate waste, but they al…

Interesting article on environmental impacts of consumer behaviours relating to refrigeration systems. The findings of this paper are also relevant to lab purchasing.

#greenlabs #getgreener #greenchem

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2050 long-term strategy The EU aims to be climate-neutral by 2050 – an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

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July 4 2025 marked the exact midpoint between the years 2000 and 2050. We are now closer to our carbon neutral target than to the turn of the millennium.

This is a sobering reminder of the work still to be done #getgreener.

Water usage - Trinity Sustainability | Trinity College DublinmenusearchSearchmenu

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Fantastic writeup from Trinity College detailing how to reduce water consumption in your lab.

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Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance

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Yet more stark news regarding climate change. The time to act is now #sustainability #getgreener

Roof collapses under heavy snow at Kerry sports complex The roof of a sports complex in Tralee, Co Kerry has collapsed under heavy snow.

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Hopefully the drastic effects of recent extreme weather in Ireland will cause people to re-examine their behaviors in both their professional and personal lives. Hopefully events such as this don't become commonplace

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‘Forever chemical’ found in mineral water from several European countries Contamination thought to stem from the heavy application of pesticides containing TFA, a type of PFAS

Another article highlighting sustainability issues with TFA.

TFA is as a good low pH stabilizer, however its environmental impact is huge. Greener alternatives such as acetic or formic acid can be validated for this application

#getgreener #greenchemistry

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Cost-Effective Solutions to the World-Wide Acetonitrile Shortage - Pharmaceutical Processing World The Acetonitrile Problem With no end in sight to the worldwide shortage of acetonitrile, the popular high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) solvent, laboratories are in search of cost-effective...

When labs incur shortages or financial difficulties they become more open to greening.

This article addressing a 2010 acetonitrile shortage can be used as a roadmap for improving your green chemistry profile.

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