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Packaging must protect the product inside—but that doesn’t require sustainability sacrifices. We are developing solutions to reduce packaging, replace non-recyclable materials and ship products at ambient temperatures whenever feasible.
As we continue refining our packaging to reduce environmental footprint, we aim to:
Our essential aim is to give you less packaging waste to deal with while maximizing packaging recyclability and reducing package size for more efficient shipping and storage in the lab.
We work with our transport partners to reduce emissions, prioritizing ocean and ground shipments over air transport. In a key air travel route, a pilot initiative shifted 37% of shipments to ocean transport, cutting 5,000 metric tons of CO2e.*
Our products that are responsibly packaged meet one or more of the following criteria:
Sustainability impact: These products now ship at ambient temperature rather than cold chain, eliminating the need for dry and gel ice as well as expandable polystyrene (EPS) foam coolers. Our functional and analytical testing demonstrated that shipping these products at ambient temperatures provides the same product quality as shipping on gel ice, without impacting long-term stability.
Sustainability impact: Designed with sustainable packaging principles, TaqMan Assays and TaqMan Primers and Probes have 57% less packaging compared to the previous packaging design, without any impact on product integrity. These TaqMan products also reduce waste, now using paperboard and plastic packaging that contain less material than the original design.
Sustainability impact: Designed with sustainable packaging principles, TaqMan Assays and TaqMan Primers and Probes have 57% less packaging compared to the previous packaging design, without any impact on product integrity. These TaqMan products also reduce waste, now using paperboard and plastic packaging that contain less material than the original design.
*Thermo Fisher Scientific 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility Report