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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do wonder how much waste is produced from medical equipment, scientific experiments and safety equipment.

Personally I feel it's justified as opposed to like plastic packaging, dumping waste water and that whole thing but yeah would like to see a better breakdown of waste production

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

More than anyone wants to admit and it usually gets incinerated for safety reasons, depending on how good your regulations are. Labs have to contract services for this.