Corporate Social Responsibility

Greener by design

Greener by design™

At Thermo Fisher, we harness the power of innovation to positively contribute to a healthier world, focusing on reducing the environmental

impact of our products and packaging—from design to end of life. By integrating environmental principles at every design step, we can reduce the carbon footprints of our products early in the design process. This plays an important role in achieving our net-zero emissions, water and waste goals, while helping our customers advance their own sustainability objectives.

 

Our Greener by design™ solutions are an important driver of our net-zero, product life cycle and packaging priorities. Our strategy focuses on five areas of impact across a product’s life cycle: less hazardous, less waste, more energy efficient, responsibly packaged, extended life.

 

We continue to scale and standardize the application of design for sustainability principles in our product design and development processes, which enables us to identify and capitalize on opportunities for transitioning toward a more circular economy.

Products

We strive to make it easier for our customers to understand the environmental impacts of products to help them make the best purchasing decisions.

 

Product labeling

We place a high priority on transparency, empowering our customers to make informed choices about the environmental impacts of the products they purchase. Our commitment is reflected through our greener product badges that allow customers to quickly identify products that meet their sustainability criteria.

 

For more information on how we enable our customers with greener products, please visit our Greener by designTM page.

 

Packaging and transport

To reduce both our customers’ and our own environmental impact, we design our packaging to uphold the quality and performance of our products while minimizing waste and emissions during transport whenever possible. This involves increasing recycled content and recyclability, transitioning to bio-based plastic or paper material, minimizing packing materials, expanding the use of returnable packaging systems and optimizing design for transport efficiency.

 

Visit Greener by designTM for more information on how we are innovating with the environment in mind.

Exploring circularity across the product life cycle

We're thinking differently about how we design, make and package our products—moving from linear processes to a more circular economy, where we eliminate waste and keep materials in use, either as a product, components or raw materials.

To learn more, read our most recent CSR report.

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