The amount of waste from expired and unused lab supplies always bothered Pitt researcher Danielle Tufts. But after reading about a sanctuary that rescues animals from abuse, illegal pet trade and wildlife trafficking in Bolivia, she saw an opportunity. Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY) provides veterinary care and rehabilitation for rescued animals, and Tufts, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the Pitt’s School of Public Health, has access to veterinary supplies the organization could use to help provide that care. That one of CIWY’s facilities was close to where Tufts will be teaching in the Pitt in Bolivia program this summer sealed the deal. She would deliver a donation of expired veterinary and lab supplies to the sanctuary instead of it going to a landfill.