Our Carbon Initiatives
We are proud of our sustainability performance and our ongoing commitments to deliver our products to the highest quality, in the most sustainable, responsible and ethical way. As we mark Earth Day (22nd April 2026) we’re highlighting just some of the measures we have recently implemented to reduce our emissions as a company.
- Our UK Head Office, our largest manufacturing facility in Lithuania, as well as our French and Spanish subsidiaries continue to use 100% renewably sourced electricity.
- We have on-site renewable energy production in four of our sites worldwide - Lithuania, Ireland, Spain, France. We also have plans to install solar panels at our head office in the UK. The combination of on-site solar power and a heat pump in France have delivered a 92% reduction in CO2 emissions from energy sources supplied to the site. Globally, Intersurgical owned renewable electricity sources created over 1000 MWh of electricity in 2025. In addition, we are working on expanding our onsite renewable energy capacity to other sites around the world.
- Due to waste reduction and landfill diversion strategies, we have successfully recycled 77% of our global waste during 2025, reducing the waste sent to landfill to just 3%. Twelve percent of our waste was sent for energy recovery and 8% of our waste was sent for incineration.
- Increased the use of SCADA software across manufacturing lines to monitor efficiency within production and to monitor waste generated in operations.
- Reduced unnecessary transport between manufacturing sites, shipping directly from our suppliers to reduce double handling.
- Systematic choice of sea and land freight has resulted in airfreight making up just 1.8% of all of our upstream transportation and distribution deliveries.
- Encouraged the use of video conference to reduce travelling between meetings.
- Engaged with our tier one suppliers to understand further their impacts on the environment and to assess their contribution to our Scope 3 emissions.
- Continually reviewed our existing product ranges and their environmental impact with an aim to improve them. Examples include the removal of the hook ring from our range of anaesthetic facemasks to reduce unnecessary plastic production and waste, the provision of kits to reduce the amount of packaging and the consolidation of our packaging to ensure that we use a minimal amount of material.
Explore our sustainability landing page to find out more about our approach, and visit our support page to access our latest Sustainability Report, Environmental Policy and Carbon Reduction Plan.