Greener Choice Program
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Our Mission
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.
The Fisher Scientific channel is committed to protecting and preserving the environment and enabling you to do the same.
Greener Choice can apply to products, their packaging or both. In all cases the following criteria must be met in order to earn this designation:
- Offer one or more of the environmental benefits itemised opposite
- Possess attributes that are environmentally preferable to products within the same category
- Ensure that the environmental benefit claims remain substantiated over time
- Contain a signed assurance from the supplier stating that all environmental claims on the products (or line of products) sold by Thermo Fisher Scientific comply with local rules governing environmental marketing claims
Greener Choice qualifying environmental benefits include:
- Carbon Offsets
- 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