Mission in a Minute

World Nature Conservation Day recognizes the importance of protecting precious natural resources.

At Thermo Fisher, our commitment to conservation goes beyond a single day, with initiatives throughout our organization to promote reduced waste, clean water and lower energy demands on a global scale.

While single-use plastics have come to play an essential role in the laboratory, we recognize the challenges they can pose in terms of generating waste.

As part of our commitment to minimizing our environmental impact, we actively strive to reduce, recycle or eliminate plastic whenever feasible. For example, we launched a program that enables our customers to mail-back their used pipette tips for recycling.

And for more than 70 years, Nalgene Outdoor, our flagship consumer brand, has been at the forefront of “refill, not landfill,” helping to divert millions of single-use plastic bottles from landfills and oceans.

Nalgene has also made clean water more accessible through initiatives like the Nalgene Water Fund, benefiting communities across the U.S., and our continued partnership with REVERB, a nonprofit focused on making concert tours more sustainable, by diverting more than 5 million single-use plastic bottles from landfills.