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Discover how we are innovating with the planet in mind.
At Thermo Fisher, we leverage the power of innovation to deliver more sustainable solutions that support our customers in achieving their sustainability goals. Our Greener by design™ strategy focuses on:
- Developing more sustainable products and services
- Driving credible, comparable transparency
- Embedding design-for-sustainability principles
Through this integrated approach, we reduce the carbon footprint and enhance the circularity of our products and services early in the development process, with the product life cycle in mind. This is instrumental to advancing our customers' and our own environmental sustainability objectives.
More sustainable solutions
The global transition to a low-carbon economy is driving customers to set science-based targets and seek suppliers who share their mindset and offer solutions to advance carbon and circularity goals.
Choosing greener products - look for the leaf
For customers seeking greener products, Thermo Fisher has created an easy identification system with our green leaf symbol. When you see the green leaf symbol on one of our products, it means that product has one or more select third-party ecolabels and meets our environmental sustainability criteria.
More solutions to reduce environmental impact
Transparency
Customers are increasingly seeking comparable, third party-certified information to integrate more sustainable practices into their purchasing decisions. We prioritize transparency regarding the environmental impact of our products. We are aligning our approach with industry standards, emphasizing the use of third-party ecolabels, and disclosing product carbon footprints (PCFs).
Design for Sustainability
Raising the bar on more sustainable product design.
Always with an eye on innovation, we strive to make the most of our resources and reduce the environmental footprint of our products, without compromising quality and performance. Leveraging our sustainable design framework and processes along with the Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System, Thermo Fisher scientists apply these Design for Sustainability principles to product design:
- Less hazardous products: Minimizing hazardous materials and hazardous waste in the lab.
- Less waste and use of fewer resources: Applying reduction, elimination or reuse solutions to reduce waste in your lab.
- More energy efficient: Lower carbon solutions that focus on energy efficiency and significantly reduce energy usage without compromising performance.
- Responsibly packaged and shipped: Reducing packaging, replacing non-recyclable materials and shipping products at ambient temperatures when feasible.
- Extending life of products and materials: Innovating in circularity to extend the useful life of products and materials.
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.
Sustainability insights
Learn more about Thermo Fisher’s Corporate Social Responsibility programs, achievements and performance