Sustainability Programme

Sustainability Program Sustainability Program

As part of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer, the Fisher Scientific channel is dedicated to providing sustainable solutions to help you reduce your environmental footprint.

Practices

New Solis Site, Barcelona – An example of the latest building techniques to minimise environmental impact.


Business sustainability is a key operating principle and one of the three pillars of Thermo Fisher’s Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. We are continually seeking new ways to meet our customers' needs, while being environmentally responsible in the way we run our business.

Product and facility highlights:

  • Landfill avoidance: Gothenburg and Loughborough sites are now Zero Waste certified; we are currently working with two major European sites to achieve Zero Waste certification to divert more than 90% of waste from landfill
  • Safety Data Sheets for chemicals is sent out electronically
  • Starting to convert our cold-chain coolers from EPS foam to a 100% paper cooler
  • Our Gothenburg site in Sweden is BREEAM certified
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Zero Waste

The Fisher Scientific channel currently has 15 sites that have become Zero Waste facilities, diverting more than 90% of waste stream from landfills. We are currently working on the certification of four major sites in Europe.

Products

You can now achieve your sustainability objectives thanks to our Greener Choice products.

Look for the green leaf icon under SPECIAL PROGRAMS in the Narrow Results filter

This filter allows you to identify all the items that are environmentally preferable to products in the same category.

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Programmes

Reduce

Decrease your quantity of physical shipments without changing your ordering cycles using our Scheduled Shipment Programme.

Request Electronic Catalogues and Literature to reduce transportation and paper usage; more than 950 digital brochures and other literature are now available.

Paper Cooler

It’s paper. It’s cool. And it means you can start saying “goodbye” to foam coolers.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our products through redesigning and minimising packaging. We know cold shipping represents one of our largest environmental impacts. Traditional expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam coolers are good at protecting products but are difficult to recycle and often end up in landfills.

Our 100% paper cooler is an environmentally preferable alternative to EPS coolers and meets the thermal requirements necessary to uphold our stringent product quality standards. Though we still rely on EPS coolers to ship a portion of our cold-chain shipments, our 100% paper cooler is an important step forward in our sustainability journey.

Expect to receive many of your future orders for Thermo Scientific™, Applied Biosystems™ and Invitrogen™ temperature-sensitive products in the new paper cooler.

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Recycle

Consolidate your orders to reduce the use of transportation and fossil fuels and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.


Reuse

Supplier materials are reused in packaging or recycled in our facilities.

Useful links and certifications

Environmental Policy

The Fisher Scientific channel represents a one-stop source and choice for a family of global product and service brands comprising a comprehensive range of laboratory equipment, chemicals, instruments, biological products, and consumable supplies. The Fisher Scientific channel's extensive list of alliances with major manufacturers, as well as our own brand of Fisherbrand products, allows us to give our customers easy access to the products that are most in demand—all from one supplier. We recognise that protection of the environment requires commercial activity to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

The Fisher Scientific channel operates a comprehensive Environmental Management System which ensures compliance with all applicable environmental legislation, regulations, codes of practice and any other standard to which the Company subscribes.

It is the Fisher Scientific channel’s policy to operate to the highest environmental standards through:

  • The consideration of environmental issues in all relevant business strategies and initiatives
  • The prevention of pollution, reduction of waste and minimisation of resource consumption
  • The education of employees in how to carry out tasks in an environmentally responsible manner
  • The setting and monitoring of objectives and performance indicators to ensure continual improvement of our environmental management system and to enhance environmental performance
  • The purchase of sustainable products wherever feasible
  • The reduction in risks from environmental hazards for employees and others near our operations