I have to agree with the positive responses on the Creative Waste recycling 
systems.
This is a small lab and the cost of the recyclers is way more than we 
wanted to spend, still we wanted to save money by buying less alcohol if 
possible.
We use the alcohol system here with great results for both the stain line 
and the processor alcohols. We also have the xylene pads to absorb moisture 
from the xylenes. We just dry them out overnite or over the weekend when we 
change the stain line and they are ready to go. It has been almost a year 
since we started recycling the alcohol. The alcohol has been reused in both 
the stain line and the processor without problems. Like the response from 
Victor, when the hydrometer shows less than 100% we use the recycled 
alcohol as 95% - using the hydrometer you can dilute to 95%.
We normally get our tissues prefixed and brought to the lab in 70& ETOH and 
we don't use formalin on the processor so we don't use the formalin system.
The company was at the last NSH.
Andi Grantham
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