Welcome to Green Solutions, a suite of sustainable products and services designed to help reduce the environmental impact of your laboratory operations. This includes products with environmentally beneficial characteristics and ACT Labels to provide environmental product ratings.
The Fisher Scientific channel is taking a leadership role in our industry by partnering with manufacturers who incorporate sustainability principles into their product design, promoting environmental disclosure to EcoVadis and requesting a commitment to setting science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
Greener Choice
Reduce your environmental impact one product at a time.
Striving to protect and preserve the environment and helping you do the same is one of our commitments to you. The Greener Choice Program makes it easy to find lab products that align with your sustainability goals.
Simply look for the leaf icon in search results to identify qualifying products.
leaf icon in search results to identify qualifying products.How Do Greener Choice Products Qualify?
Greener Choice products meet the following criteria in order to earn this designation:
Offer one or more environmental benefit as itemized in the U.S. FTC “Green Guides"
Offer one or more environmental benefit as itemized in the Have received confirmation that the stated product attributes are environmentally preferable to products within the same category
Have received assurances that the environmental benefit claims remain substantiated over time
Have received a signed Certificate of Compliance from the supplier stating that all environmental claims on the products (or line of products) sold by Thermo Fisher Scientific comply with the requirements of all applicable state and federal laws governing environmental marketing claims
Greener Choice qualifying environmental benefits include:
- Certifications and Seals of Approval
- Compostable
- Degradable
- Energy Star Certification
- Free of a Substance that Causes Environmental Harm
- Non-Toxic
- Ozone-Safe or Safe for the Ozone Layer
- Recyclable
- Recycled Content
- Renewable Energy
- Renewable Materials
- Source Reduction
Trusted Sustainability Partner Program
Look for the green world icon on product pages to find items offered by suppliers that have qualified for our Trusted Sustainability Partner program.
green world icon on product pages to find items offered by suppliers that have qualified for our Trusted Sustainability Partner program.Trusted Sustainability Partners:
- Show dedication to protecting the environment by being accepted into the program that has established rigorous qualification standards
- Have set goals aligned with science and have taken action to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change as outlined by the 2015 Paris Agreement
Greener Switch
Would you like to know what Greener Choice options are available for the laboratory products you buy, based on your organisation’s purchase history? The new Greener Switch feature will offer alternative product suggestions to help you reduce the environmental impact of your laboratory operations.
Our specialist cross-referencing team can review the items you buy and suggest alternative Greener Choice products. The suggested products will be technically and functionally appropriate and will help you increase the proportion of items in your laboratory that contain environmental advantages compared to other items in the same category.
Paper Cooler
Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our products through redesigning and minimizing packaging. The new Paper Cooler is a fully recyclable paper-based container for shipping temperature-sensitive products and is an environmentally preferable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) coolers.
- Fully recyclable alongside other paper and corrugated box materials
- Eliminates difficult-to-recycle EPS waste, reducing disposal issues
- Every 10,000 paper coolers removes over 184 m³ of EPS from landfills
- Intended for overnight shipments
This 100% paper alternative to EPS coolers has a cardboard framework lined with perforated layers of paper insulation and is fully recyclable in normal paper and corrugated cardboard recycling streams. The EPS alternative is not readily recyclable, accumulates in landfill, and often ends up littering oceans, waterways, and highways.
- Filename
- recyclable-paper-cooler-technical-note-eu.pdf
- Size
- 176 KB
- Format
- application/pdf
Scheduled Shipments
In 2021 the Fisher Scientific channel implemented a revolution in serving science by automating our Edge Program. The Edge icon is a visual indicator of our customer promise to “Get Same-Day Dispatch on Some of Our Most Popular Products”. Order any product marked with the Edge icon from any location in Europe before 14:00 local time and we will dispatch the same day. Orders placed after 14:00 will dispatch the next business day.
is a visual indicator of our customer promise to “Get Same-Day Dispatch on Some of Our Most Popular Products”. Order any product marked with the Edge icon from any location in Europe before 14:00 local time and we will dispatch the same day. Orders placed after 14:00 will dispatch the next business day.Rapid shipping remains important to many laboratories. However, we must also consider the requirement for more sustainable shipping. To enable you to reduce your environmental shipping impact, we can now offer consolidated shipments and scheduled shipments as part of Green Solutions. On request, we can consolidate your shipments with alternative routes on certain days for geographical efficiency. We can also agree scheduled shipments by collating your orders and shipping on pre-determined dispatch days, e.g. weekly. For customers with designated dispatch days, Edge items will continue to be dispatched according to this schedule.
Goals and Performance
Science-Based Targets
Science-based Targets are greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that are based on climate science and aligned with the Paris Agreement.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- 50.4% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030
- 90% of suppliers by spend to set science-based targets by 2027
- Net Zero Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions by 2050
EcoVadis
EcoVadis is a globally recognized assessment platform that rates businesses on their sustainability in four key categories: Environment, Labor and Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- View our EcoVadis scorecard on the platform by searching for THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC (GROUP)
- Or request it directly from sustainability@thermofisher.com
Recycling Services
Greener Webshop
Please use the following links to discover more sustainable Greener Choice items in some of our most popular product categories.
