What Is Green Chemistry

Do you know what Green Chemistry is

The concept of greening chemistry developed in the business and regulatory communities as a natural evolution of pollution prevention initiatives. In efforts to improve crop protection, commercial products and medicines, unintended harms to our planet and humans are caused

Now, some of the long-term negative effects of these advancements could not be ignored. Pollution choked many of the world’s waterways and acid rain deteriorated forest health. There were measurable holes in the earth’s ozone. Some chemicals in common use were suspected of causing or directly linked to human cancer and other adverse human and environmental health outcomes

The United States formed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970, which was charged with protecting human and environmental health through setting and enforcing environmental regulations

Green chemistry takes the EPA’s mandate a step further and creates a new reality for chemistry and engineering by asking chemists and engineers to design chemicals, chemical processes and commercial products in a way that, at the very least, avoids the creation of toxics and waste

Ref: www.acs.org

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