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Meet the Green Chemistry Green Impact Team

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The work Green Chemistry is doing towards sustainability is impressive - creative initiatives as well as the more straightforward or generic approaches. You can see they really care about this initiative! Their work on comparing current equipment to potential equipment highlights their drive to find more efficient equipment." 

Our goals are to minimise our effects on the environment following recommendations from the University Sustainability Goals.

Our target areas this year have included:

  • Changing weighing boats from plastic to reusable glass
  • Campus Tree Trial Walk for Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Sustainability lab methods including waterless condensers and multipoint equipment
  • Sustainability lab notice board for all green chemistry announcements
  • Charity events raising money for our toilet twinning campaign and food banks

Our team has been awarded platinum awards for the past three years in both the lab and general categories for making high impact improvements to the environmental performance of the green chemistry labs, promoting sustainable practices and reducing waste and energy consumption in office areas.

We are very proud of our achievements so far and any staff member or student working in the GCCE is welcome to join the team. If you are interested, please contact gcce-greenimpact-team@york.ac.uk

Green Chemistry Green Impact Project 2022-2023

This year we are completing a green impact project for the first time - specifically focusing on greening-up our GC-FID analysis. Our focus will be to look at switching from helium to hydrogen as a carrier gas by analysing the economics, carbon footprint, and sustainability metrics for both options. The Green Impact project has given us more insight and ideas into other ways we can change how we work in our lab in the future. Having a team dedicated to sustainability in the workplace makes a world of difference.

- Megan Goss, Daniel Inglis & Richard Gammons

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For more info contact: greenimpact@york.ac.uk 

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