<div dir="auto">Dear Stefano,<div dir="auto">Thanks a lot for your notice!</div><div dir="auto">We will take care about the reagents and the alipac.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All the best,</div><div dir="auto">Deborah Recchia, Ph.D</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il Lun 20 Ott 2025, 11:44 Stefano Rovida <<a href="mailto:stefano.rovida@unipv.it">stefano.rovida@unipv.it</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>together with Viola, Claudia and Annamaria (in cc), we are making a major effort to collect all old, sometime almost prehistoric, reagents<span> </span><b>not anymore in use<span> </span></b>that have accumulated in the Genetics & Microbiology Building in the course of years and that need to be discarded. There are very precise and strict safety rules for their storage, transport and final disposal. Each discarded reagent must be classified based on its quantity, packaging, danger, and requires to be accompanied by its safety data sheet. Reagents have to be collected in blue 30 liter drums full of inert material; not all reagents can be collected in the same drum. As you might imagine, disposal is very expensive. We pay for each drum, for each bag of inert material, and according to weight. Moreover, due to the large amount of bottles, tanks, various types of containers (some of them without any label!!!!) costs for this disposal are <b>levitating</b>. Thus, any inattention and error in this disposal process cost additional money to the DBB,<span> </span><b>and we do not have money to waste</b>.</div></div><div>We kindly ask all research groups, from now on, for maximum cooperation in checking their reagent stocks in order to avoid unnecessary purchases, especially when such reagents are already available.<br>Please promptly report the presence of expired or otherwise unusable reagents.<br>Even if unused, some reagents might still be useful to other groups, as has recently occurred.<br>We also ask that all waste be labeled with as much information as possible to help identify its level of hazard, since <b>any unknown substance</b> must be analyzed by the disposal company—an <b>extremely costly process</b>.<span> </span><br></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>Furthermore, all other internal rules for the preparation of alipak and hazardous liquid tanks (code 070101; 070703; 070704) must be followed as usual.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your help.</div><div><br></div><div>Stefano, Viola, Claudia, Annamaria</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Stefano Rovida<br>Biocrystallography Lab<br>Dept. of Biology and Biotechnologies<br>"Lazzaro Spallanzani"<br>University of Pavia<br>via Ferrata, 9<br>27100 PAVIA<br>Italy<br>tel. +39 (0)382-985572 - 5534<br><br><a href="mailto:stefano.rovida@unipv.it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">stefano.rovida@unipv.it</a></div></div></div></div>
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