Walk into any medical examining room, chemistry lab or clean room and you won’t have to look far to see boxes of lab gloves. They’re often racked on the wall, sometimes three or four high, where ...

Disposable elastic gloves are widely used in scientific laboratories and in many industries for the handling of critical surfaces. Typically, they are made from nitrile or latex rubber and provide the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A simple recycling program at Purdue University shows that even the smallest gestures go a long way when it comes to sustainability. Since fall 2014, laboratories in the ...

The reaction between the nitric acid and the nitrile and latex gloves is extremely exothermic and violent. It is often ...

The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University have diverted almost 6 tons of waste from landfills through a recycling program ...