Fisher Scientific Offering Collection And Recycling Service

Fisher Scientific operates a collection and recycling service for used 2.5L glass (Winchesters) and plastic coated glass bottles from our customers. The company currently collect 10,000 bottles per week from customers. 53% of these returns were reused in 2007, the rest recycled as cullet. Bottles are washed, visually checked and QC tested. Plastic bottles are recycled by a reprocessing company for use as underground pipes. Water used in the bottlewash was optimised in 2003 - consumption has been reduced by the equivalent of approximately 35 bathfuls of water per hour.