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 # On Earth Day and Beyond, Biogen Drives Sustainable Production of Medicine

 

##### Biogen scientists are using green chemistry and other sustainable production methods to make medicines more efficiently, using less resources and energy.

 

 

 Apr 22, 2022 1:00 PM ET

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How can sustainable manufacturing impact the environment? Biogen’s manufacturing group finds ways to reduce, reuse and recycle throughout the creation of a new medicine.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

*The world we know is threatened by pollution, loss of biodiversity, and a lack of resources - according to the American Chemical Society, an estimated 44 elements will face supply limitations in the coming years with some becoming challenging to access within 100 years.*

*Each one of us needs to do our part when it comes to taking care of the planet - reduce, reuse, recycle.*

*Individuals, private companies, communities, and countries can all have an impact.*

*Preserving the world's resources effect not only the health of the environment but the health of future generations.*

*At Biogen, we’re employing innovative, sustainable processes to actively reduce waste and minimize use of natural resources and energy.*

*These principles form the basis of green chemistry.*

*Producing a medicine involves the combination of a number of different ingredients across many steps; Biogen scientists are looking at the entire production process, finding ways to reduce the number of steps – creating new, more efficient, less wasteful, methods.*

*By using flow chemistry in our production process we are reducing the energy needed to reach the low temperatures required to create certain new medicines.*

*Beyond conserving energy, it's also about resources. Some of the ingredients that go into making a medicine are ubiquitous, while other ingredients are quite rare - so rare, in fact, that accessing them may become difficult in the next 50 years.*

*To conserve these resources, we utilize techniques that allow us to recycle and reprocess the elements needed in the production of medicines.*

*For example, we’ve initiated the use of packed-bed flow reactors to recover the catalyst in some reactions, allowing them to be reused after production completes.*

*These resources are finite - we must do our part to preserve them and the environment.*

*Biogen was the first company in the life sciences industry to become carbon neutral in 2014, and, by 2030, all of our products will achieve greater than 90% of our green chemistry targets - reducing waste at every step of the manufacturing process.*

*Still, we’re looking beyond even that – our aim is to go ‘beyond net zero’ – by way of our Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives initiative, a 20 year, 250 million dollar investment back into our planet to become fossil fuel free.*

*The changes that each of us make will shape our planet for future generations - Biogen is committed to this future. Join us as we strive toward building a stronger, more sustainable world for all.*

[Learn more about Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives](https://www.biogen.com/en_us/healthy-climate-healthy-lives.html)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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