DONATE SUPPLIES
Ready to donate lab equipment or supplies?
Follow these steps to get started.
To initiate the donation process, please contact us at info@biolinkdepot.org
Please include the following:
- Your name
- Institution
- Address
- Phone number
- A detailed list of the donations, including the amount of each item
- When the donations will be available
We will contact you to let you know which items we can accept and arrange a drop-off at our site.
Address: 9235 San Leandro Street, Oakland, CA 94603
**We cannot accept chemicals of any kind**
We can only offer pick-up for large equipment.
Once we receive the donations we can email a donation receipt if requested.
Disclaimer:
Toxic and hazardous chemicals and supplies cannot be accepted. Additionally, the Depot is unable to accept equipment that is not working or hazardous. The Depot tests equipment which is then provided to educational institutions (K-12, community colleges, 4-year colleges, universities, and community labs) for use in education and research. Materials that are working and non-hazardous but still not acceptable to educational institutions may be recycled, sold, or discarded by the Depot.
We are here to answer all of your questions. Feel free to reach out to info@biolinkdepot.org. We typically respond within 1-3 business days.
What’s Needed
Items We Always Need
- Equipment
- Gloves
- Beakers
- Petri dishes
- Goggles
- Transfer Pipettes
- Microscope slides
- Graduated Cylinders
- Filtration units
- Glassware/Chemware
- Cloth Lab Coats
- See more in charts below
Items NOT Accepted
- Broken equipment/ instruments
- Liquid or chemical agents of any kind
- General furniture
- Used Consumables/ Supplies
- Kits
- Syringes with needles
- Blood drawing supplies
We accept lab equipment and supplies that can be used by K-12 schools, community colleges and universities. We are unable to accept contaminated and hazardous items or defective or non-working equipment that is unrepairable.
Other examples of donations highly valued by educators and researchers:
Small Lab Equipment:
| Microscopes | Waterbaths | Centrifuges |
| Hot plates | Vortexers | Stirrers |
| Pipettors | Colorimeters | Power Supplies |
| Water purification units | Balances or Digital Scales | Electrophoresis Equipment |
Larger Lab Equipment:
| Autoclaves | Pumps | Freezers |
| Shakers | Sequencing systems | Lypholizers |
| Incubators | Ovens | Spectrometers |
| Chromatography equipment | Liquid Nitrogen containers | Real-time PCR systems |
Supplies:
| Safety Goggles | Inoculating loops | Plastic bottles |
| Thermometers | Squirt Bottles | Gloves/masks/PPE |
| Flasks | Petri dishes | Tubes/vials |
Glassware:
| Flasks | Beakers | Bottles + Caps |
| Vials | Advanced Chemware | Condensers |
Lab Furniture:
| Lab carts | Biosafety cabinets | Glassware cabinets |
| Supply cabinets | Storage racks | Chemical cabinets |
Office Supplies:
| Recent model computers | Laptops | iPads |
| Tape | Paper | Stackable bins |
Further your impact by also contributing much needed funds.
Your donations of scientific equipment and supplies will help schools, under-funded research programs and nonprofit science programs. By donating your excess or obsolete equipment and supplies to the Depot you will also help divert these from landfills.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you accept chemicals and reagents?
We do not accept bulk chemicals such as solvents, acids, alkalis, or hazardous chemicals. Feel free to contact us if you are not sure. We do accept yeast extract, sugars, agarose, salt, LB media powder, and simple assays.
You may also contact the teacher-run Google Group, The Chemical Exchange Network, to request or donate a wide range of chemicals. You can “Ask To Join Group” by following the link below:
How does the donation process work?
Donors contact us through info@biolinkdepot.org or fill out our Donor Form, ideally providing a summary of materials available. We will respond as soon as possible. We accept most lab supplies that can be used by high schools, community colleges and universities. As well as most types of operating lab equipment/instruments of any type.
Can donations be mailed or shipped in?
It depends, please contact us first at info@biolinkdepot.org.
We cannot accept chemicals of any kind. However, we often receive supplies and equipment sent in from all over the continent.
What types of equipment and supplies do you accept?
We accept a large variety of equipment and supplies. Most any equipment used in a biotech or chemistry lab is accepted. The following is only a partial list:
Consumables
We accept consumables such as pipette tips, (both robotic and non-robotic), filtration products, microtubes, microplates, microscope slides, specialty glass, plastic bottles/vials, and many other items.
Equipment
We accept equipment and instruments such as hot plates, stirring motors, centrifuges, microscopes, shakers, water baths, vortexers, power supplies, pipettors, biosafety cabinets, autoclaves, LC-MS, GC-MS, NMR, bioreactors, chemical reactors, and many others, including many types of larger-scale/industrial equipment .All equipment must be in working order.
Other
We also accept furniture such as lab benches and lab chairs.
What supplies and equipment cannot be accepted?
We are unable to accept the following donations:
• Liquid reagents that are not part of kits.
• Contaminated or damaged equipment or supplies
• Equipment that is no longer working (we do not have the
capability to fix gear as yet)
• Toxic or radioactive materials
Where are you located?
Please contact us before arriving or arranging deliveries:
- Our main donation Center: 9235 San Leandro Street, Oakland, CA 94603
Does Bio-Link Depot offer a donation receipt that can be used for tax purposes?
Yes, after you donate we can provide you with a receipt and our federal ID number.
Where will my donations go?
The Depot works hard to get your donations into the hands of future scientists! We provide the donated items for free to educational institutions (K-12, community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities, community laboratories) for use in education and research, with a priority for Title I K-12 schools. We do this because we believe that equity in STEM education and sustainability in the Biotech industry are both essential for our future. Material that educators and researchers are unable to use, may be sold, recycled or discarded by the Depot.
How does the donation delivery process work?
Once you have received a confirmation from us, donations can be dropped off at our Oakland site.
We ask that all donations be dropped off at our site, but we may be able to arrange a pick-up for large equipment.