Environmental

At Twist Bioscience, our mission is to make synthetic DNA to improve health and sustainability. The power of our silicon-based platform drives our ability to make synthetic DNA at a scale otherwise unavailable to our customers. We leverage this bold, innovative technology to improve environmental sustainability, as our proprietary DNA manufacturing process reduces the volume of chemical reagents used and waste generated by 99.8%.

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Reducing Reagent Use and Waste by 99.8%

By taking a technology approach to dramatically reduce the environmental impact of DNA synthesis we enable our customers a more sustainable way to design, build, test, and commercialize future therapeutics,
diagnostic tests, agricultural products, materials, biobased chemicals, and data storage solutions.

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Twist reduces carbon footprint compared to
96-well plate approach

More Sustainable Packaging and Processes

Waste Miniaturization

By miniaturizing DNA synthesis,
chemical waste is significantly reduced.
Per run we synthesize 10,000x more
oligos and produce 1000x less chemical
waste per oligo.

Eco Packaging

We adopted our own shipping packaging
made from 50% recycled material,
designed specifically to minimize wasted
space in every parcel. Where possible
we have replaced plastic for cardboard.

Recycling

Twist has successfully diverted over 31,422 pounds of plastic waste from landfills by recycling nitrile gloves and PPE. We have also diverted over 28,350 kg of single use scientific plastic from landfills by recycling pipette tip boxes in our R&D labs.

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Twist
Bioscience is
Committed to
Writing the
Future
Sustainably.

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How our Work Impacts the World

We work in service of customers who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as health care, food/agriculture, industrial chemicals and academic research, by using our synthetic DNA tools, our customers are developing ways to better lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. We believe that the faster our customers succeed, the better for all of us, and we believe Twist Bioscience is uniquely positioned to help accelerate their efforts.

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Genes

Oligo Pools

NGS Target Enrichment Solutions

Variant Libraries

Synthetic Controls

Antibody Discovery

Environmental

Reducing Reagent Use and Waste by 99.8%

Twist reduces carbon footprint compared to 96-well plate approach

Learn more about Twist’s Corporate Responsibility

More Sustainable Packaging and Processes

Waste Miniaturization

Eco Packaging

Recycling

Twist Bioscience is Committed to Writing the Future Sustainably.

How our Work Impacts the World

Designing Enzymes for the Infinite Recycling and Upcycling of Plastic

Screening Synthesised Effector Gene Libraries to Rapidly Identify Immune-Recognised Virulence Genes in Plant

Prediction of prime editing insertion efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants

Our Corporate Responsibility Program

Twist reduces carbon footprint compared to
96-well plate approach

Twist
Bioscience is
Committed to
Writing the
Future
Sustainably.