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Can science break its plastic addiction?

Mosaic
Mosaic
Nov 5 · 15 min read

Gloves, sample tubes, bottles and vials — the world’s labs produce millions of tonnes of waste each year. Alice Bell meets the scientists who are finding less polluting ways to work.

Lucy Gilliam has an infectious passion for environmental action. Today, she works in Brussels on environmental transport policy. But in the early 2000s, she was a molecular microbiologist in Hertfordshire. Like…

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