Table 2 SUP items commonly used for cell culture experiments in cancer research laboratories.
From: Towards greener and more sustainable pre-clinical oncology research
SUP | SUP type | Recyclable | Supplier (catalogue number) |
|---|---|---|---|
Liquid handling | |||
Stripettes part plastic wrap (5 ml, 10 ml, 25 ml) | PS / EVA1 | Yes2 | Fisher (5 ml, 10420201; 10 ml, 10084450; 25 ml, 1060615) |
Stripettes all plastic wrap (5 ml, 10 ml, 25 ml) | PS3 | Yes2 | Fisher (5 ml, 11829660; 10 ml,11839660; 25 ml, 11517752) |
Pipette tips (P10, P200, P1000) | PP | Yes2 | Starlab (P10, S1111-3700; P200, S1111-1706; P1000, S1111-2721) |
Tissue culture vessels | |||
Flasks (T25, T75) | PS | Yes2 | Greiner (T25, 658175; T75, 660175) |
Petri dishes (35 mm, 100 mm diameter) | PS | Yes2 | Greiner (35 mm, 627160; 100 mm, 664160) |
Multi-well plates (6, 12, 24, 48, 96 well) | PP | Yes2 | Nunc (6-well Nunc; 1011983) Corning (12-well ;10253041 48- well; 10732552) Greiner (24-well, 662160; 96-well, 655180) |
Containers for tissue culture solutions | |||
Tissue culture medium | PET | Yes | Sigma (RPMI 1640, R8758-500ML) Life Technologies (DMEM GlutaMAX, Gibco 11594446) |
Phosphate-buffered saline | PET | Yes | Sigma (P4417) |
Foetal bovine serum | PET | Yes | Biosera (FB-1092) |
Trypsin | PET | Yes | Sigma (T3924-500ML) |
Tubes | |||
Eppendorf tubes (0.2, 0.5, 1.5 ml) | PP | Yes2 | Fisher (0.2 ml, 1178110) Axygen (0.5 ml, MCT-060-C; 1.5 ml MCT-175-C) |
Universal (30 ml) | PP | Yes2 | Sterilin (12521299) |
Bijou (5 ml) | PS | Yes2 | Sterilin (11369123) |
Cryovial (1.8 ml) | PP | Yes2 | Starlab (E3110-6122) |
Miscellaneous | |||
Autoclave bags | PP | Yes | Fisher (11309103) |
Product outer packaging | Various | Mostly | Multiple |
