2019 年 10 巻 2 号 p. 27-30
Long-term bulk storage of unnecessary chemical substances increases the work needed to manage these substances in the universities.
There is an increased exposure risk for staff and students to harmful gases and potential delays in dealing with emergencies such as fires.
Moreover, the damage to work environments and other problems in terms of safety and hygiene management is also feared. To solve these problems, Faculty of Medicine and the university hospital in Tottori University sponsored a program for the collection of the chemical substances stored in laboratories on campus and the reuse of them. The project succeeded in making reuse of about 7% of the surplus chemical substances at our university. There have been several previous reports on the disposal and reuse of leftover reagents at universities. However, this is the first report investigating the attributes of the chemical substances used in the biomedical field laboratories specifically. It is useful as basic data on chemical substances management in this field.
