businessdailyafrica.com — Eleven years ago, as a Fulbright scholar, Nina Dudnik did a year-long research stint at the Africa Rice Centre in Côte d’Ivoire, where her colleagues meticulously rinsed out disposable items, such as pipette tips, so they could re-use them. Soon after, when she went to graduate school at Harvard University, United States, she saw that serviceable equipment and laboratory equipment were routinely thrown out whenever laboratories upgraded their inventories.