Disposing of unwanted research equipment

How do you dispose of unwanted and outdated research equipment? Whilst equipment is potentially valuable, re-use options can be limited and often research equipment is disposed of as waste. To help tackle this issue, the University's environmental team have recently launched a pilot trial of the Uni Green Scheme equipment resale service.

Uni Green Scheme (UGS) collaborates with the equipment sharing project and the environmental team to collect, store and sell surplus equipment for universities which then returns a share of the profits from the equipment sales to departments. Further details about cost and environmental savings can be found here https://www.equipment-sharing.cam.ac.uk/blogs