The use of cage-washing systems can be costly, burdensome and labor-intensive.
Animal care facilities face significant operational challenges when relying on cage-washing systems that require maintaining expensive equipment and additional labor. These systems often require costly infrastructure upgrades and place additional demands on the facility staff. The tunnel washer and autoclave processes inherent in cage-washing systems can drive up energy consumption, water use, and detergent costs. This creates financial, staffing, and environmental strain.
Switching to the Innovive Disposable IVC system eliminates these burdens. It simplifies vivarium operations and drastically reduces the cost of building and maintaining an animal facility. The Innovive System eliminates the moving and processing of soiled cages. This simplification of process and material flow means a smaller, less complicated facility layout, improved biosecurity, and an easier operation to manage.
How Innovive's Vivarium Solution Reduces Your Carbon Footprint
The Innovive Disposable IVC System is a standardized animal husbandry solution for in vivo studies. It combines advanced Innovive rack (Innorack) ventilation with recyclable pre-bedded cages and pre-filled water bottles delivered to your facility ready for research. The Innovive IVC System provides a highly controlled, clean microenvironment at each cage level. It offers the fastest way to initiate and scale up in vivo research, removing the need to build, staff, operate, and automate a cage wash.
Your Animal Care Facility: Resource-Strategic
The Innovive Disposable IVC System is a game-changer for vivariums. By eliminating the need for cage-washing infrastructure, our system allows your animal care facility to be more resource-strategic.
Water Reduction
Vivarium operations traditionally consume vast amounts of water for washing and sterilizing cages. Innovive eliminates this step, significantly lowering water consumption and eliminating the need for detergents. This not only reduces utility costs but also eases the strain on local water supplies—a critical advantage in drought-prone areas.
Energy Savings
Traditional cage-washing facilities demand significant energy for washing and maintaining high HVAC loads to counteract heat generated in washrooms. With Innovive, the absence of a cage wash dramatically reduces HVAC energy needs, which often account for more than 50% of a vivarium’s total HVAC expense. This translates to substantial energy savings and a smaller carbon footprint.
Sustainable Manufacturing: Efficiency at Every Step
Post-Consumer Plastic Use
Our products are made with up to 70% post-consumer PET plastic, a high-quality, strong, clear, and highly recyclable material. Recycled PET has a much lower footprint than new plastic. By using reclaimed plastic, we close the loop on plastic waste and contribute to a circular economy.
Optimized Irradiation
Innovive is the only vivarium manufacturer in the US with a co-located irradiation center. We've streamlined the process by employing individual product dose mapping, maximizing cycle loads, and using electron beam (e-beam) and gamma methods. These steps minimize the energy load required for irradiation while maintaining product safety and effectiveness.
Eco-Friendly Packaging and Delivery: Reducing Transportation Emissions
Lighter Cages
Our patented lightweight cage design minimizes the weight and space required for transportation. This efficiency reduces fuel consumption and lowers greenhouse gas emissions during delivery.
Optimized Delivery Routes
By collaborating with transportation partners, we minimize mileage, maximize shared container loads, and use backhaul routing. This ensures that every journey is as efficient as possible.
Rail and Shared Shipping
Where possible, we prioritize rail transport and shared container loads, further reducing the environmental impact of logistics.
Closed-Loop Recycling: A Zero Landfill Solution
Innovive's Closed-Loop Recycling Program exemplifies our commitment to sustainability. All of our products are made from clear, colorless PET plastic free from glues and contaminants, ensuring maximum recyclability. Through Innocycle, our California-based closed-loop recycling facility, our products that we reclaim from customer sites are recycled, diverting approximately 600 tons of waste annually from landfills.
When the used cages arrive at Innocycle, our recycling technology separates bedding from the cages, then granulates, washes, and sorts the plastic. This produces a high-quality, clean flake that is then used to form new cages. Our commitment doesn't end there. We collect, sort, and send all packaging material for additional recycling while sending the bedding to an industrial composting facility, which is processed into a nitrogen and carbon-rich soil amendment.
In addition, our Innocycle team provides reports to our customers showing site-specific emissions and waste reduction.
Your Choice for a More Sustainable Vivarium
At Innovive, sustainability has been a guiding principle in everything we do. From innovation conceived internally to removing our products from a research facility for recycling and composting, our goal is to minimize the environmental impact of our products. We believe innovation and environmental stewardship go hand in hand. We are proud to lead the way in creating a sustainable future for vivarium operations.
Opting for the Innovive IVC system offers a simplified approach to vivarium operations. It allows facilities to enhance efficiency while reducing their environmental footprint. This choice supports sustainable manufacturing, eco-friendly logistics, and closed-loop recycling processes that repurpose used materials into new products. It provides an opportunity to adopt a more sustainable model for managing vivarium operations and advancing scientific research.
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