Lab Plastic Recycling in the Tri-State Area | Polycarbin

Lab Plastic Recycling for the Tri-State Area

Polycarbin’s closed-loop recycling solutions help labs across the Tri-State Area keep single-use plastics, like pipette tip boxes, nitrile gloves, and other PPE out of landfills and in circulation. With our Carbin Counter™ dashboard, built on ISO 14040 & ISO 14044 compliant Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), you’ll get science-backed sustainability metrics that make reporting on your waste diversion easy.

Why Choose Polycarbin in the Tri-State Area?

The Tri-State Area is one of the country’s most active life sciences hubs, home to top universities, hospital systems, and biopharma companies driving innovation every day. But with that progress comes a challenge: managing the growing volume of single-use lab plastics sustainably. 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 the Tri-State’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. Whether you’re based in NYC, New Haven, or anywhere in between, we build solutions to fit your operations.

By partnering with Polycarbin, you get:

Regional Service Coverage – Our team works across NYC, North Jersey, Long Island, Westchester, and Southern Connecticut to provide regional processing to 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.
Compliance-ready Workflows — We offer recycling programs tailored for academic, pharmaceutical, and clinical research settings, without disrupting your 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 the Tri-State Area

From Columbia to Yale, and Mount Sinai to Sloan Kettering, the Tri-State region is leading the next wave of scientific discovery. Polycarbin offers an intuitive, practical path to starting your decarbonization journey.

Tri-State Sustainability Resources

Driving meaningful change requires strong partnerships. Here are trusted programs and organizations that can support your lab’s sustainability efforts:
NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability New York State Climate Act (CLCPA) New Jersey Sustainable Business Registry Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) NYC Accelerator for Building Sustainability