Lab Plastic Recycling in RTP, NC | Polycarbin

Lab Plastic Recycling for Research Triangle Park in North Carolina

Recycle any brand of laboratory plastic, nitrile gloves, and PPE with Polycabin’s closed-loop recycling solutions that keep single-use lab plastics in circulation. Then, track your progress with our Carbin Counter™ dashboard. Built on ISO 14040 & ISO 14044 compliant Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), our Carbin Counter™ provides trusted, evidence-based sustainability metrics to simplify reporting and managing your sustainability programs.

Why Choose Polycarbin in the RTP area?

Home to some of the nation's most prestigious research institutions and life science companies, the Research Triangle region - including Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh - has become a nucleus of biotech innovation. From companies headquartered in RTP to university labs at Duke, UNC, and NC State, scientists here are reshaping the future of medicine, diagnostics, and biology. Polycarbin helps labs across the region cut single-use plastic waste and stay ahead of sustainability goals, without disrupting workflows. We provide a science-backed, data-driven recycling platform tailored to meet the operational and regulatory needs of North Carolina’s scientific community. Most labs start with one of our various mailback programs and ultimately graduate to large-scale CORE Services™, whereby Polycarbin provides recycling services by the truckload.

By partnering with Polycarbin, you get:

Local Collection Workflows – Efficient logistics and regional processing help keep your plastics out of landfills without the carbon burden of long-distance hauling.
Trackable Impact – We quantify your lab’s diversion metrics and impact, making sustainability reporting effortless.
Custom-fit Programs — Whether you’re in academia, biotech, or clinical research, we tailor your recycling solution to your lab’s size, goals, and safety protocols.
"Polycarbin made it incredibly easy to set up our recycling program. They helped us understand which program would work best for us and even established a 'pilot' to ensure its success. Now that we’re up and running, they are always available for questions or additional quote requests."
- Sonia Jaidka, Addition Therapeutics
"Partnering with Polycarbin was a game-changer for us. Their tailored recycling solutions met our unique biosafety and research needs and significantly reduced our environmental footprint. The simplicity and effectiveness of Polycarbin’s system transformed our approach to lab waste, making sustainability a natural part of our daily operations."
- Zac Simon, Institute for Systems Biology

Get Started With Polycarbin in RTP

Whether you're part of a university lab, clinical research team, or growing biotech in RTP, Polycarbin makes it easy to reduce plastic waste without disrupting your workflow. Join North Carolina’s top labs in creating a cleaner, more circular research ecosystem with Polycarbin.

RTP Sustainability Resources

Driving meaningful change requires strong partnerships. Here are trusted Triangle-based programs and organizations that can support your lab’s sustainability efforts:
NC DEQ Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI) NC State Sustainability Office Sustainable Duke UNC Institute for the Environment North Carolina Biotechnology Center – RTP Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster