• Question: is you research is good for the environmrnt

    Asked by 322gdna36 to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Im afraid my research is rubbish for the environment. Because I have to be so careful that everything I use has no bacteria on it, I use lots plastic things only once then throw them away to be sterilized, then put in landfill.

      Its not good so at home I try to be really good about recycling and I dont have a car to try to make up for it!

    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      My research is about the environment, so I would hope so!
      But, I do travel a lot and use lots of petrol and boat diesel doing surveys, so I guess there is a balance to be had about understanding how our environment is changing and contributing to that change via the research I do to find out how it is changing!!!

    • Photo: Arthur Dyer

      Arthur Dyer answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Sadly my research isn’t great for the environment for the same reason as Clare. We use a lot of plastic and it all has to be really clean so I don’t give the cells i’m growing infections to keep my results as real results and we use a lot of chemicals and cancer samples from people that all have to be burned or sterilized and disposed of really carefully.

      Unfortunately most biology is like that.

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