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... Some universities are beginning to require that environmental costs be part of the budget provided to research-funding agencies. Additional management actions include conducting bids each year for waste-management services and establishing direct relationships with waste-disposal firms, rather than using "middle men." Research laboratories have begun to take a number of cost-controlling actions such as substituting less-toxic, more easily disposable materials for the ones currently used.
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