Here you can find a range of tips and tricks shared by the conservation community on social media to make your lab, studio or museum more sustainable in day to day tasks, be it saving energy by using reminder stickers or creative ways of re-using nitrile gloves.
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Christmas tip – Gift tags from blotting paper
Christmas tip – Decoration from toilet paper cardboard rolls
Christmas tip – cards and decoration from cut-offs
Tip – Wreaths made from cardboard boxes
Using old lego bricks for mould-making
Re-using old gloves as beaker lids
Storing adhesive in sterilized lab glass
Making notepads from paper cut-offs
Using second-hand dental tools
Saving water by using small tubs
Reducing waste by storing adhesives in syringes
Reducing need for disposable gloves by alternating wooden sticks
Sourcing polyethylene foam from local companies
Using textile gloves for retouching
Reducing adhesive and solvent waste by proper labelling
Making punch needles and ruling pens from broken compasses
Fixing solvent dispensers with pipettes
Magnetic soap holder
Re-using old phone cases
Collecting glass jars and foam
Label maker cut-offs
E-business cards
Fully cured epoxy scraps
Glass butter dish for soap
Holding joints together with bicycle inner tubes
Tobacco boxes for tools
Re-using plexiglass, bottle caps and tips of pipettes
Bamboo brushes
Collecting cut-offs for re-use
Re-using foam cut-offs
Re-using pipettes
Re-using old cards as spatulas
Wax cut-offs
Old nitrile gloves
Recycling nitrile gloves
Reviving dried brushes
Mark your plastic tools
Plaster
Green solvents
Swabs
Fully cured Paraloid B-72
Substitutes for scalpel blades
Energy saving stickers
Re-use gloves
Re-using polyethylene board cut-offs
Using thermos
Use what you have first before replacing plastic tools
Pool noodles as holder for brushes
Old pens and Dremel-type diamond points
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Repurposing White Out tubes for PVA
Collecting old nails
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Christmas tip – Froebel stars and bows from Melinex or excess gift wrappings
Christmas tip – Melinex and cloth as gift bows and baubles
Christmas tip – Canvas cut-offs for gift wrapping
Christmas tip – Remnants of acrylics as bauble decoration
