Each researcher gets 5kg of mail every year, and more than 50,000 researchers move lab every year, so that's 250 tonnes of paper going into landfill - but this opt-in service might prove an answer
Millions of scientific catalogues and mail is thrown away every year because they were sent to researchers who have left the lab.
Each researcher gets at least 5kg of mail from vendors every year, claims Ikon, and more than 50,000 researchers move labs every year.
That's 250 tonnes of paper going into landfill.
Not to mention the added waste of transportation fuel and packaging.
The solution might be to keep I-kode informed when someone leaves a lab workplace.
The company compiles monthly gone-away lists so that the vendors that send out those catalogues can stop.
And if you are the one moving, it's quick and easy to update your address on the site, says the company.
The service is free and your privacy is assured, it says.
The company only passes on your new address when you give permission by opt-in to each selected vendor.
Every gone-away name saves 5kg of waste.
Pass it on.
