You don’t need a full sustainability program to start spending less.
Your lab may already have simple opportunities to reduce waste, lower operating costs, and use resources more wisely.
Lab ReNew helps you find the best place to begin, understand what it could change, and carry the work through without adding another complicated project to your plate.
Find Savings
You can start with one practical improvement.
Start Where It Makes Sense for Your Lab
From a focused first look to a full sustainability initiative,
Lab ReNew helps you choose a practical level of support based on your goals, resources, and readiness.
Introductory Internal Audit
See where your strongest opportunities may be.
Lab ReNew reviews the areas of your operation most likely to contain avoidable costs, resource waste, or inefficient practices. The scope can be kept narrow or expanded based on the size and needs of your lab.
Starting at $500
Start With a Review
Begin with a practical look at where your lab is today.
What’s included
- A review of current priorities and concerns
- Evaluation of selected lab practices and resource use
- Identification of realistic opportunities
- Initial observations and recommendations
- A conversation to walk through the findings
- Guidance on the most practical place to begin
Why it matters
You don’t have to evaluate every possibility yourself. The audit helps you focus attention on the opportunities most likely to be useful, achievable, and worth exploring further.
What to expect
You’ll leave with a clearer picture of where costs or resources may be slipping away, which opportunities deserve a closer look, and what a sensible next step could be.
A practical first step doesn’t require a major commitment.
Start with the area that concerns you most, or let Lab ReNew help determine where to look first.
Educational Workshops
Give your team practical knowledge they can use.
Lab ReNew develops educational workshops around the sustainability challenges, opportunities, and priorities most relevant to your lab or organization.
Workshops can help employees understand not only what could change, but why it matters and how their everyday decisions contribute to the outcome.
Starting at $1,500
Plan a Workshop
Make sustainability easier to understand—and easier to act on.
What’s included
- Workshop content tailored to your goals and audience
- Clear explanations grounded in real laboratory operations
- Practical examples and areas for discussion
- Opportunities for questions and team participation
- Takeaways employees can connect to their own work
- Recommendations for continuing the conversation afterward
Why it matters
Sustainability initiatives are more likely to gain traction when employees understand the purpose behind them and can recognize their own role in making them work.
What to expect
Your team will leave with greater awareness, a shared understanding of the topic, and practical ideas they can begin applying within their own areas of responsibility.
Give your team a useful place to begin.
Tell us what you want employees to understand, explore, or begin doing differently. We’ll shape the workshop around your lab and your goals.
Focused Lab Solutions
Solve one defined problem without launching a full program.
Focused Lab Solutions address a specific source of cost, waste, or resource use. Each project concentrates on one manageable opportunity and provides analysis, findings, and practical recommendations.
Choose a known priority or ask Lab ReNew to help determine which solution is the best place to begin.
Start with one opportunity. Learn what it can change.
What’s included
- A clearly defined area of focus
- Review and analysis of current practices
- Findings specific to your lab
- Practical improvement recommendations
- Consideration of cost, effort, and operational impact
- Guidance for moving forward
Why it matters
A focused project gives you useful information and a defined path forward without requiring a large, organization-wide commitment.
What to expect
You’ll understand what is happening now, what could realistically improve, what the change may involve, and whether the opportunity is worth pursuing.
Give your team a useful place to begin.
Tell us what you want employees to understand, explore, or begin doing differently. We’ll shape the workshop around your lab and your goals.
You don’t have to know which solution you need.
Tell us what you’re noticing—or what you want to improve—and Lab ReNew will help identify the most useful place to focus.
Available Focused Solutions
- AIM REPORT
Starting at: $1,000
A focused report that helps you better understand a defined area of lab performance or resource use and identify practical opportunities for improvement.
Expected result: Clearer information, prioritized findings, and a more informed next decision. - CHILL UP
Starting at: $2,000
A focused look at cold-storage practices and opportunities to improve freezer performance, energy use, organization, and operating practices.
Expected result: Practical recommendations for improving cold-storage efficiency without compromising the lab’s work. - GREEN CHEMISTRY
Starting at: $3,000
An evaluation of opportunities to reduce the environmental and operational impact of chemicals used within the lab.
Expected result: A clearer understanding of where safer or more sustainable practices may be realistic and which changes warrant further consideration.
- PLUG LOAD CONTROL AND ANALYSIS
Starting at: $5,000
An analysis of the energy used by plug-connected lab equipment, including operating patterns and opportunities to reduce unnecessary consumption.
Expected result: Findings and practical solutions for lowering avoidable energy use while protecting laboratory requirements. - RED BAG WASTER MINIMIZATION
Starting at: $5,000
A review of how regulated medical waste is identified, handled, and discarded within the lab.
Expected result: Opportunities to reduce unnecessary red bag waste, improve sorting practices, and potentially lower disposal costs. - SINGLE-USE PLASTIC REDUCTION
Starting at: $5,000
An analysis of commonly used disposable plastics and realistic opportunities to reduce, replace, reuse, or purchase them differently.
Expected result: A prioritized set of changes that can reduce recurring material use and waste without disrupting essential lab processes. - FUME HOOD AND AIR CHANGE ANALYSIS
Starting at: $10,000
An evaluation of fume hood use, ventilation practices, and air change requirements to identify potential energy and operational improvements.
Expected result: Practical findings and recommended solutions that balance energy efficiency with laboratory safety and performance requirements.
Full Sustainability Project
Build a coordinated sustainability effort around your lab.
For organizations ready to address multiple opportunities, Lab ReNew develops a customized project based on the lab’s facilities, operations, priorities, and internal capacity.
The work may bring together audits, analysis, education, recommendations, implementation planning, vendor or resource coordination, and ongoing support.
Custom projects starting at approximately: $50,000
Discuss Your Sustainability Project
Move from individual improvements to a coordinated plan.
What’s included
- A customized assessment of needs and opportunities
- Prioritization based on potential value and feasibility
- Analysis across multiple areas of lab operations
- A practical sustainability roadmap
- Estimated costs, savings, effort, and operational considerations
- Employee education and stakeholder communication
- Implementation planning and project coordination
- Progress tracking and documentation
- Recommendations for maintaining and extending the work
Why it matters
Sustainability efforts can lose momentum when opportunities are handled separately, responsibilities are unclear, or the lab lacks the internal capacity to manage the work. A coordinated project connects the pieces and keeps progress moving.
What to expect
You’ll have a realistic, prioritized path forward; clearer ownership and decision-making; and practical support for turning sustainability goals into improvements your organization can maintain.
Ready to connect individual opportunities into a larger effort?
Let’s talk about your priorities, internal resources, and what meaningful progress could realistically look like for your organization.
Common Places to Begin
Your first opportunity may already be within reach.
Waste
Spend less on disposal.
Improve how materials are sorted, handled, and routed so you’re not paying premium rates where they aren’t needed.
Energy
Get more from the equipment you already use.
Reduce avoidable energy consumption from freezers, fume hoods, ventilation, and bench equipment without compromising the work.
Purchasing
Make every purchase work harder.
Reduce repeat costs through smarter material, chemical, supply, and vendor decisions.
Equipment Practices
Improve performance before investing in something new.
Look at settings, schedules, maintenance, and everyday use to find practical efficiencies.
Single-Use Materials
Lower recurring costs and unnecessary waste.
Identify realistic places where reuse, substitution, or better purchasing can make sense.
Incentives and Resources
Make improvements easier to fund.
Find utility programs, vendor support, or other resources that may help offset the cost of change.
You’ll understand the scope and investment before the work begins.
Before moving forward, you’ll receive a clearly defined scope, expected deliverables, timeline, and cost. No open-ended consulting arrangement. No unexpected additions.
If the scope changes, Lab ReNew will discuss the options and any effect on pricing with you before additional work begins.
Some implementation projects vary based on lab size, complexity, travel, or outside resources. When that happens, you’ll receive a clear proposal before any work begins.
Not sure which level of help you need?
Start with a short conversation about what’s happening in your lab. We’ll help you decide whether a review, a plan, or implementation support makes the most sense.
You don’t need exact numbers or a finished sustainability plan.