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Record W3200788101 · doi:10.11575/prism/39257

Toward Zero Waste – A Study In Reducing And Managing Lab Waste

2021· article· en· W3200788101 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gideon Choi

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen MIND · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicChemistry and Chemical Engineering
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWaste managementZero wasteEnvironmental scienceWaste treatmentBusinessEngineering

Abstract

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The linear waste management model (take-make-dispose) has led to consumption and production patterns that exceed Earth’s sustainable capacity. Zero Waste philosophies emphasize the reduction of raw material usage, retention of value in manufactured products, and align with UNSDG 12 ‘Responsible Consumption and Production’. The University of Calgary’s Zero Waste strategic plan aims to create a Zero Waste campus by 2030. One key challenge is addressing the high volume of non-hazardous lab waste, including unrecycled glass and plastic, discarded lab equipment, and contaminated mixed recycling. Qualitative methodologies, including an electronic survey, are used to create a best-practice guide for implementing sustainable lab activities. Behaviour change barriers related to cost and effort are discussed related to voluntary adoption of environmental behaviour through education, clear communication, commendations, and increased waste diversion options. Staged implementation can potentially offer quantitative metrics to measure future impacts of implementing sustainable lab activities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.099
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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