Thanks very much everyone for the responses!!! Pretty much everyone thinks this is a ridiculous idea (to put it politely). Plus I found out that we may be overpaying for our slides - we buy Superfrost from Fisher at $350/10 gross, whereas Gorilla Scientific are selling the same type of slide for about a third of this cost (trial pending).
It's still not totally clear to me whether used slides (we are an academic lab working on transgenic mice, not a clinical lab) can be sent for glass recycling, but they probably end up in landfill/incinerators (they most likely are classed as contaminated sharps waste). Best wishes Nick 2009/11/30 Nicholas Evans <nde...@googlemail.com> > Dear all, > > In our lab our boss is adamant that we must clean and recycle old > unmounted microscope slides (which have paraffin and cryo sections on them). > It is driving us nuts, as the process of cleaning the slides is incredibly > tedious and labor-intensive - it is vital that the slides are spotlessly > clean before re-treating. We (when I say we, i mean the student lackies who > get drafted in the lab, not me, hoho) currently physically scrub them with > various solvents, such as citrisolve, acetone etc. we use Fisherbrand > Superfrost/plus slides. > > Anyone got any ideas how to speed this up/automate – is there a machine > available? And would anyone care to vote on the lunacy or soundness of > this idea? (Please post to me, not the list.) We are not a clinical lab, > by the way. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet