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Supporting sustainability through services
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we help customers advance their sustainability goals while maintaining scientific rigor, quality, and compliance. Across the healthcare value chain—from clinical development and laboratory operations to pharmaceutical manufacturing—we offer services, tools, and expertise that can help organizations better understand and reduce environmental impacts.
Clinical trials
Making sustainability measurable
The PPD Carbon Emission Calculator for Clinical Trials is an open-access, evidence-based tool designed to help sponsors and researchers rapidly assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with clinical trials.
The tool provides a high-level estimate of key trial emission impacts, including investigational product manufacturing, patient travel, sample processing, and site operations. By providing greater visibility into sources of emissions, the tool can help teams compare study designs and operational approaches, enabling them to evaluate opportunities to reduce emissions while maintaining study quality and regulatory compliance.
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Carbon footprinting and sustainability assessments
Through our clinical research services, we can support sponsors in understanding the environmental impacts of their clinical trials and evaluating opportunities to reduce emissions. This includes audit-ready carbon footprint assessments in conformance with the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition’s Clinical Trials: Environmental Assessment Method as well as analysis of operational approaches such as:
- Telemedicine and virtual visits
- Alternative travel strategies for patients and study personnel
- Risk-based monitoring approaches
- Renewable electricity sourcing at trial sites
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Fisher Scientific Sustainability Programs
To help customers identify products and suppliers that align with their sustainability objectives, Fisher Scientific offers programs that provide greater visibility into environmental attributes and supplier commitments.
Greener Choice
The Greener Choice program highlights products with recognized environmental credentials. The program will align with the My Green Lab ACT® Ecolabel, the leading third-party ecolabel for laboratory products. Products included in the program are identified with a leaf icon, helping customers more easily evaluate options that support their sustainability goals.
Trusted Sustainability Partner
The Trusted Sustainability Partner program recognizes suppliers that meet defined sustainability criteria and demonstrate a commitment to environmental stewardship. The program helps customers identify suppliers actively addressing environmental impacts, provides greater visibility into sustainability commitments and goals, and supports more informed purchasing decisions.
Learn more about the Trusted Sustainability Partner program
My Green Lab® Accelerator Partner
As part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services delivers a scalable suite of laboratory services and support solutions designed to help customers improve operational performance and advance sustainability initiatives.
As a My Green Lab Accelerator Partner, our trained specialists provide consulting and implementation support to laboratories worldwide.
Green Lab Consulting Services
- Project management support from PMP®-certified professionals
- My Green Lab certification implementation support
- Guidance and progress tracking throughout the certification process
- Sustainability subject matter expertise and laboratory best practices
Lower carbon drug manufacturing
Reducing environmental impacts across pharmaceutical manufacturing requires attention to materials, processes, and resource efficiency.
Solvent Recovery
Solvents can represent a significant source of environmental impact in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Through collaboration with customers, Thermo Fisher Scientific has implemented solvent recovery approaches that help reduce waste and associated greenhouse gas emissions. For example, a methanol recovery initiative contributed to a significant greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Single-Use Technologies and Process Efficiency
Single-use technologies (SUTs) can help improve manufacturing flexibility and operational efficiency while reducing the use of resources such as water, energy, and facility space compared with certain traditional stainless-steel systems in many situations.
Our bioprocessing experts work with customers to optimize process performance through approaches such as process intensification and facility design strategies that can help reduce water consumption, lower energy demand, minimize reliance on cleaning chemicals, and support smaller facility infrastructure.
One example is the Thermo Scientific DynaSpin Single-Use Centrifuge, which can generate up to 69% less filter waste and up to 74% less liquid waste compared with conventional alternatives in applicable processes.
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