How the Column Repacking Service Works

The vision of our company has been the production of products that have quality performance that are better for the environment.

With the development of silica packed plastic cartridges has come the increase production of complicated waste that is being land filled or incinerated. Both of these options are not good for our environment. One chemist using 3 average size plastic cartridges a week results in a total of nearly 33 lbs (23.3 lbs of silica and 9.4 lbs of plastic) of complicated waste per year. With an estimate of 3,000 users of plastic cartridges, the complicated waste that is being produced each year is close to 98,000 lbs.

 THERE IS A BETTER CHOICE with no increase in cost

By using our columns this huge amount of waste would be almost totally eliminated (a small amount of waste is produced in the process to re-purify the silica, but no plastic waste is generated).

How it Works

		Step 1: Remove column from box
		Step 2: Flush column with solvent
		Step 3: Add compound onto column
		Step 4: Separate compound
		Step 5: Blow solvent out of column
		Step 6: Replace column in box and return

Send used columns in crushed box and outer box to:

RT Scientific - ATL

1670 Discovery Drive, #212

We provide a service to pack, clean and repack glass chromatography columns. After the column is used, all you have to do is blow out the solvent, put it back in the shipping tube and box and mail it to us with the provided return label. We will clean and re-pack it with fresh new silica gel or other media of your choice and send it back to you for reuse. All the silica from the used columns is sent to another company for purification.

Note*- We provide an additional service to have the columns boxed, labeled and a reorder sheet provided for the scientist. Minimum order required. Call RT Scientific Inc., at 434-806-1731 for information.