Laboratory researchers may finish a project and no longer need a specific chemical product. In the past, they would have sent it to us for disposal, but now we place it in our redistribution program. We also receive chemicals at times when a laboratory moves and the laboratory staff use the opportunity to redistribute chemicals they no longer need. This program has been so effective it received the Governor's Pollution Prevention Award in 1998.

Also, our best marketing are the customers who use the program. Here's a comment from Edna Hand, Storekeeper in Microbiology: "The chemical redistribution program is an absolutely great program. Where else can you get FREE chemicals. I always check the Redistribution list before I order any new chemicals for the labs in our department. It certainly saves our department money."

All of the containers are original and many are still sealed. It's easy to see this in the on-line database. All containers are inventoried, assigned a unique number, and stored at CEHS by hazard category until they are requested by someone on campus. All chemicals are delivered with a Material Safety Data Sheet particular to that chemical.

All chemicals are available free of charge to any department on campus.  Instructions for viewing the list of chemicals are included or proceed directly to the chemical redistribution ordering page .