Just one word.
Are you listening?
Plastics.
I guess someone at Operon saw “The Graduate” and took that advice to heart. I used to receive oligos from Operon in a paper corrugated sleeve. It could hold up to eight oligos. You could reuse it, recycle it or just throw it out and not feel too guilty.
Today I received an (meaning literally ONE) oligo I had ordered. It came in a plastic box, clearly marked OPERON, with a difficult to remove recessed lid as an added bonus. It must use about 20 times the plastic that was used in the screw top oligo tube. I guess you could use it as a semi-waterproof bullet box on weekend deer hunting trips.
As most manufacturers (and consumers) make an effort to use less plastic in their packaging I’d like to nominate Operon for the “We support global warming award of 2007″!
Posted on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 10:39 pm Categorized as:General You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Just got back in the lab from holiday travel. HOLY COW!! Hal isn’t kidding about this box? rack? It has 32 holes except eppendorf tubes don’t fit in them. The top doesn’t close if you put a tube in it. It really does seem like a bad decision by Operon.
We’re trying to figure out an alternative use for it.