Our Year in Review
In August 2025, at Sagitta Pharma, we launched a simple yet meaningful initiative in partnership withPharmaGreen
Our goal: to take concrete action to reduce waste associated with healthcare products while supporting organizations that help those in need.
At the halfway point, we shared an initial review of this collaboration: Read our 6-month review.
After one year, the time has come to assess how far we’ve come. Thanks to this partnership, health products that could no longer be sold—particularly because they were damaged or nearing their expiration dates—were reused rather than destroyed.
And in just twelve months, the impact is already very tangible!
Making CSR a Practical Tool in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The partnership between Sagitta Pharma and PharmaGreen was born out of a shared ambition: to give a second life to healthcare products destined for destruction and channel them into supervised charitable distribution networks.
After the first year of collaboration, the results fully demonstrate the value of this approach.
12,883 products donated in one year
Over the course of 12 collection drives, a total of 12,883 products were donated through the PharmaGreen program.
In particular, they were distributed to many people in precarious situations through several partner nonprofit networks:
- the Île-de-France Food Bank,
- Aviation Without Borders,
- Secours Populaire Français.
Behind these numbers lies, above all, a very concrete reality: useful products that can reach people who are in precarious situations, isolated, or facing an emergency.
Reuse Instead of Destroying
This partnership also addresses a major environmental challenge: preventing the destruction of products that are still usable.
During this first year of donations, the 12,883 reused items represent more than 1 metric ton of CO₂ avoided!
In practical terms, this amounts to approximately:
- a month and a half of daily life for a French citizen (including housing, food, transportation, shopping, services, etc.).
- 🚄 About 245 round-trips between Paris and Marseille on the TGV
- 🥩 About 218 meals containing beef
This result shows that, on our scale, very practical changes in product management can have both environmental and social impacts.
At Sagitta Pharma, this is precisely the direction we want our CSR approach to take: prioritizing concrete actions that are integrated into our operations as a pharmaceutical wholesaler, distributor, and purchasing cooperative.
An approach that is just as accessible to our customers
In addition to our own efforts, we wanted to go a step further by also giving Sagitta Pharma’s customers access to the PharmaGreen program.
The goal is to enable them to easily integrate this reuse initiative at the individual pharmacy level, using a structured solution tailored to the operational constraints of each pharmacy.
This partnership thus goes beyond the scope of our own business to help create a more responsible pharmaceutical industry.
A first anniversary… and the determination to keep going
These first twelve months have confirmed just how valuable our partnership with PharmaGreen is.
12,883 donated and redistributed products and more than one metric ton of CO₂ avoided: this first anniversary encourages us, above all, to continue and expand our efforts.
Because a CSR policy truly comes into its own when it translates into concrete actions, we want to continue developing this partnership and gradually bring more stakeholders on board.
An encouraging first year—and certainly not the last.
