How can you reduce lab waste without sacrificing results?

Laboratories are on the front line of modern science, but they are also significant producers of waste. Single-use plastics including pipette tips and their storage racks have become entrenched in life science workflows due to contamination risks and ease of use. Yet the convenience of disposables comes with a hefty environmental price, with millions of tonnes of waste produced globally by research labs. This realisation is forcing scientists, procurers and product designers to rethink how routine actions like pipetting can be made more sustainable.

At METTLER TOLEDO and Rainin, we are committed to helping you reach your lab sustainability goals. While we aim to reduce our impact internally, we also make sure that our products reflect these efforts. As a result, we have created several low impact pipette tips to help you reduce your lab waste.

Green Pipetting with EarthRack & TerraRack

Enter EarthRack — the world’s first biodegradable pipette tip rack from Rainin. EarthRack is the revolutionary new era in pipetting; it’s light, biodegradable and still of the same quality of a regular pipette tip rack. Made form reformed cellulose, EarthRack can be composted after use, or easily incinerated, reducing plastic lab waste by up to 80%. EarthRack is also certified BioClean Green, the new testing regimen developed by us at RAININ to ensure the quality and purity of tips packaged in this unique cellulose packaging.

An alternative to EarthRack is TerraRack, the recyclable pipette tip racks from Rainin. While still made from plastic, TerraRack uses PETE plastic, the same as water bottles or fruit punnets, that can easily be recycled. By switching to TerraRack, your lab can ensure that your pipette tip boxes don’t have to end up in landfill. TerraRack is available in universal tips and can be used with any brand of pipette.

By switching to a green pipette tip from Rainin, your lab can progress with its sustainability goals. Whether you have made significant progress to green up your lab, or are just beginning your sustainability journey, Rainin can offer consultations on how to increase your lab’s sustainability.

Tips for Trees

Did you know that 24,700,000 football fields worth of forests are cut down every year?

At Rainin, we don’t only want to focus on reducing your lab waste through green tips, but to make a global impact on the environment. That’s why for 2026 we have launched Tips for Trees.

Tips for Trees is our new initiative to help global reforestation. We have teamed up with Tree Nation, a global leader in sustainability, to facilitate the reforestation of land all over the world. For every 20 of our green tips purchased, Rainin will plant a tree through Tree Nation in Australia’s Big Scrub Rainforest in southern Queensland.

We also have another program, Reuse, Reforest, which also promotes global sustainability via tree planting. Every time one of our customers reuses our pipette servicing box, we will plant a tree in the Forest Gardens of Simiyu in Tanzania.

All progress is tracked via Tree Nation’s transparent reporting, including the quality, type, and number of trees planted and the carbon impact of the trees.

Together, we can Be the Difference and can continue to protect our earth whilst advancing scientific research.

Be the Difference with Rainin

If you’re interested in our green pipetting ranges, or would like to know more about our sustainability initiatives, contact us via email on info.mtaus@mt.com, or call us to chat about your sustainability goals via 1300 659 761.