UNDER CONSTRUCTION
General
FKF is committed to the work on the Global Goals. Below you can see examples of initiatives and research projects that connects with some of the Goals.
Work in the lab
All laboratory technicians think recycling and waste sorting into the daily workflow.
Some equipment is reused/sorted:
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All glass bottles that have contained solvents (rinsed and evaporated)
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Clean broken glassware
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All plastic bottles that have contained solvents (rinsed and evaporated)
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Hard plastic packaging from e.g. pipette tips, emptied and rinsed chemical tubs in plastics (especially after solid chemicals)
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Other hard plastic packaging
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Printed paper and cardboard (all cardboard boxes as packaging for solvent bottles, all boxes that have contained gloves)
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Metal cans that have been used as protection for chemicals
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Metal cans from camping gas bottels
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Pure metal in general
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Flamingo boxes from shipments for frosen goods are recycled around the department, for example for cold baths or shipments
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Labcoats donated by the students are used by visitors in Apparatlab
Power saving initiatives:
The newest fume cupboards at the department are equipped with self-closing doors that are activated when left too long. In addition, the suction is lowered down in the evening/night and on weekends. Here you need to activate an extra suction in the hallway if you are going to work outside normal working hours.
Water saving initiatives
In practice labs the department has 4 pieces "suge-ellen" (and so old they are named after the "Dollars series") that are used for syntheses that require suction overnight, or for several hours. In the past water jet pumps that were connected to ordinary faucets were used. Generating a lot of spill-water. "Suge-ellen" is a pump in which a portion of water is poured, which is then reused to the pump all the time. Saving really many liters of water!
Electric pumps have been installed on most of our rotavapor for lab courses as well as in research labs, which again is saving a lot of water since in the past they had been connected to a water jet pump. In addition refrigeration machines have been connected to all rotavapor in the practice lab, whereby a coolant is recirculated in the machine.
Lastly, in all fume cupboards at FKF, recirculated water has been added for use in reflux equipment etc.
Global Goals in the research:
Our researchers work both directly and indirectly with the SDGsResearch into phosphorus in wastewater, new solar cells, molecular machines, better batteries, pharmaceutical chemistry, the physics of soft materials, enzymes and bioorganic complexes addresses the following SDGs in addition to SDG 4 "Quality Education":
3: Health and well-being
6: Clean water and sanitation
7: Sustainable energy
8: Decent jobs and economic growth
9: Industrial innovation and infrastructure
12: Responsible consumption and production
13: Climate action
14: Life in the sea
15: Life on land
17: Partnerships for action