LEAF resources
Information and resources for labs participating in LEAF and guidance for making your lab more sustainable.
User guide
- LEAF User Guide October 2024 (WORD, 1.1MB)
Stickers
- Switch off when not in use (WORD, 2.3MB)
- Please get permission to switch off (WORD, 2.3MB)
- Do not switch off (WORD, 2.6MB)
- Shut the sash stickers (WORD, 55.2KB)
- Switch off the lights stickers (WORD, 36.3KB)
- Chemical labelling stickers (WORD, 58.7KB)
- Equipment heating times (POWERPOINT, 89.2KB)
- Equipment booking sheets (WORD, 52.8KB)
- Computer switch off stickers (POWERPOINT, 116.9KB)
Award evaluation guides
- LEAF Achieving Bronze V3 (PDF, 253.5KB)
- LEAF Achieving Silver V3 (PDF, 242.4KB)
- LEAF Achieving Gold V2 (PDF, 235.0KB)
Best practise documents
- Reducing consumable use best practise (PDF, 248KB)
- Energy Consumption best practise (268.8KB)
- Sustainable water use best practise V2 (PDF, 429.9KB)
- Chemical management best practise (PDF, 201KB)
- How to change computer monitor brightness and time to sleep (PDF, 307.3KB)
- Green Chemistry best practise (PDF, 621.4KB)
- Sustainability for office spaces best practise (PDF, 329.9KB)
Quick guide posters for printing
- Quick guide poster - Reducing consumable use (PDF, 359KB)
- Quick guide poster - Reducing energy consumption (PDF, 326KB)
- Quick guide poster - water usage V2 (PDF, 320.2KB)
- Quick guide poster - Chemical management (PDF, 338KB)
- Quick guide poster - Green Chemistry (PDF, 146.3KB)
- Quick guide poster - water purity types (PDF, 206.7KB)
University Freezer Guidance
- University Freezer Guidance (PDF, 788KB)
Laboratory exit checklist
- Laboratory Exit Checklist (WORD, 20.1KB)
Laboratory Induction
- Laboratory sustainability induction (POWERPOINT, 1.9MB)
- Guide on what to include in laboratory inductions to meet LEAF criteria (PDF, 32.2KB)
Supplier Information
- Supplier sustainability guide (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Supplier take back schemes (PDF, 134.2KB)