The Eppendorf epT.I.P.S.® BioBased in volumes up to 1,250µL open up new doors to make laboratory work significantly more sustainable without jeopardising experimental results. By using a second-generation bio-based polymer made from at least 90% renewable resources (e.g. waste and residues from vegetable oil refining or waste cooking oil), the product-related carbon footprint of these pipette tips and filter pipette tips was significantly reduced.

Like our tips made of virgin fossil-based polypropylene, these tips are manufactured to extremely high quality and purity standards and are designed to cover all of the specific needs of your samples. Offering reduced-force tip attachment and ejection with complete sealing, epT.I.P.S.® BioBased pipette tips work in perfect combination with your Eppendorf pipettes and form a fully integrated pipetting system that delivers maximum precision, accuracy and reproducibility. They will complete your workflows in an excellent way. Additionally, they support you in your efforts to become visibly more environmentally friendly in the laboratory.

Since oil-based plastic lab consumables replaced glass products, they have become irreplaceable in laboratories around the world, providing the high-quality standards needed in increasingly demanding research. However, this poses a growing challenge in respect to sustainability. This is why Eppendorf not only focuses on the development of new products but also on new, more environmentally friendly manufacturing materials. We have even succeeded in finding a polypropylene based on renewable raw materials which we are now using for the production of a new generation of pipette tips.

Together with the use of more sustainable starting material for the pipette tips, these bio-based tips come in a Reload variant which meets the same purity and sterility requirements as conventional disposable Racks. This Reload variant saves up to 54 % fossil-based plastic compared to conventional Racks and significantly reduces the volume of laboratory waste. The new Reloads fit perfectly into the well-known epT.I.P.S.® Box 2.0.

Thus both aspects – bio-based raw material for the pipette tips and significantly reduced use of plastic for the Reloads – contribute to an improved laboratory carbon footprint and to laboratory waste reduction.

• Improve your laboratory carbon footprint and switch to epT.I.P.S.® BioBased in the new Eppendorf Reload variants. These pipette tips are produced from recycled feedstock in second generation, derived solely from waste and residue streams from vegetable oil production e.g. used cooking oil
• Reduce significantly your laboratory waste volume – use Reloads instead of disposable Racks
• Trust the sustainability promise – our production facility is ISCC PLUS (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) certified to enable traceability along the entire supply chain
• Pipette tips with ACT (Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency) certification – the independent validation body for sustainability assessment of products
• Premium material, quality and purity certified:
• Get excellent sample integrity as no slip agents, plasticizers and biocides are used
• Independent laboratory – Lot-specific purity certificates can be downloaded from Eppendorf website
• General quality certificates in compliance with standards and general Eppendorf quality items
• Available in volumes from 10µL to 1,250µL Long in Reloads for use with epT.I.P.S.® Box 2.0
• Available as epT.I.P.S.® BioBased Biopur®, ep Dualfilter T.I.P.S.® BioBased PCR clean and sterile, ep Dualfilter T.I.P.S.® SealMax® BioBased Biopur®