My Green Lab is a nonprofit organization that specializes in helping companies develop sustainability programs that target reduction in energy, waste, and water. The My Green Lab program focuses on continuous improvement to reduce the environmental impact of laboratories by integrating key sustainability topics through day-to-day operations. The program focuses on key cultural aspects such as, communication, engagement, and participation of our employees without disrupting the critical work underway.
Recognized by the United Nations Race to Zero campaign as a key measure of progress towards a zero-carbon future, My Green Lab Certification is considered the gold standard for laboratory sustainability best practices around the world. Laboratories present special challenges, and this program help us focus on these challenges and key environmental aspects such as, cold storage, green chemistry, energy infrastructure, waste & recycling, and water consumption.
IQVIA Laboratories plans to achieve My Green Lab Certification at all labs globally. Below are some highlighted achievements across our laboratories:
- Freezer Challenge participation 2022 and 2023- designed to promote best practices in cold storage management for laboratories around the world to achieve greater energy efficiency, sample integrity and sample access.
- Reduction of waste
- Reduction of water consumption
- Reduction of energy consumption
- Reduction of environmental impacts of test kits
