While you are creating a healthier world, we are advancing our sustainability solutions
For more than 125 years, we've been helping contribute towards a more sustainable healthcare system. This includes our aim to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - which is just one of our targets approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi).1
But we don't just want to reduce our environmental impact, we also want to make a positive impact overall. Here is how we will help grow sustainable and accessible care for current and future generations.
What does sustainability mean
BD is committed to helping preserve our healthcare systems for the long term, ensuring that both current and future generations will have access to safe, high-quality care while keeping the health of our planet in mind.
Reducing our environmental impact
As a global medical technology provider in today's world, we must improve the stewardship of our company, communities, human health and the planet. All of these are interconnected. Our corporate sustainability strategy, - Together We Advance - supports these connections as we continue to work closely with users, buyers and suppliers across the world. The aim is to drive positive collective outcomes and a healthy, resilient world for all. Discover some of the ways this strategy is helping to make real change.
Excellence in sustainable manufacturing
Featuring a key BD manufacturing site in Europe, the BD Fraga plant in Spain is a site with ISO 14001 certified environmental management systems. Our Fraga plant runs on 100% renewable electrical energy.2
The feasibility of recycling blood collection tubes
One study in partnership with Odense University Hospital, the Health Innovation Centre of Southern Denmark, the Danish Technological Institute, the Global Material & Asset Fund and EcoFITT ApS, found used blood collection tubes, made from high quality plastic, can be cleaned, shredded and moulded into new articles.3
The study that discovered efficiency
CHU Nantes partnered with BD on optimising logistics through the SCORE Program. Not only did we improve order delivery timeliness and completion, but also reduced CO2 emissions by 90% (24,8 tonnes, down from 264 tonnes) over the period of 1 year.4
Exploring circularity for prefilled flush syringes
Research with Borealis, Hammarplast Medical, Mölnlycke Health Care, Reelab, Rondo Plast, Region Skåne aims to evaluate real volumes and quality of risk-free plastics collected for recycling. This helps us to collect information on actual costs for the separate handling and recycling of risk-free plastics.
Empowering workforce and communities
Our story not only includes creating a deep sense of belonging for the people in our workforce, but also the public-private partnerships that work to serve communities across the globe. Helping to ensure health systems, workers and patients have access to life-saving care. Here's just a few examples of our partnerships and investments.
- We are a member of the UN-hosted Stop TB project, which aims to end TB by 2030.
- BD has invested $360,000 to support the International Council of Nurses' Organisational Development of National Nursing Associations.
- Our teams work to educate healthcare professionals across the world on noncommunicable diseases, from kidney disease to cervical cancer.
Hear our commitments from experts
Maureen Mazurek, Chief EHS & Sustainability Officer
Join Maureen Mazurek, in exploring the BD commitments to advancing the health of our planet, an integral part of our Together We Advance strategy, and our 2030+ goals.
Fiona Garin, Vice President, Strategic Marketing EMEA
Hear from Fiona Garin, on how BD strives to ensure access to safe, quality care for current and future generations while minimising negative impacts on the environment, all of which fall under our commitment to sustainable healthcare.
BD has received a bronze medal from Ecovadis, which ranks us in the top 35 % of companies.
BD has a sustainability score of 62 and has been gradually increasing its core since 2016 . Ecovadis offers a range of sustainability solutions designed to help organizations manage, measure, and improve its sustainability performance across the entire value chain. Ratings are awarded based on 21 criteria across four themes: Environment, Fair Labour and Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. The methodology for each of the themes is built on international ESG standards, including the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Global Compact.
BD is proud to meet the Climate Excellence Standard (phase 1), awarded by the U.S. Health Care Climate Council
The Climate Excellence Standard for health sector suppliers defines superior performance in decarbonization on the part of individual suppliers to ensure the health care supply chain is aligned with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, while improving resilience. Check out our Climate Excellence Standard for health sector suppliers / Practice Greenhealth.
