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Anastas, a pioneer of green chemistry, spent much of his time reforming the agency's programme for assessing the risks of individual chemicals,
Turning chicken feathers and plant fiber into eco-leather, bio-based circuit boardsthe Environmental protection agency has honored the University of Delaware's Richard Wool with its Presidential Green chemistry Challenge Award for his extensive
This motivated Wool to incorporate green chemistry and green engineering solutions into his research. He created several high-performance materials using biobased feedstocks including vegetable oils lignin chicken feathers and flax.
Ten years ago green chemistry and engineering was a novel concept but today we are reaching a critical mass of individuals focused on sustainability
and elsewhere have been studying biomass pretreatments with ionic liquids--environmentally benign organic salts often used as green chemistry substitutes for volatile organic solvents.
Robert Peoples Directoramerican Chemical Societys Green chemistry Institute I think plastic is going to be with us for a long time.
Green chemistry is all about thinking about end of life considerations before you design the molecule and put it into the environment.
The goal in green chemistry is to reduce or eliminate the hazardous materials or products. Its a proven systems approach.
If you can apply the principals of green chemistry, you wont need regulations. There are zero federally funded green chemistry centers in the U s. China is a mess environmentally right now
but China gets the fact that green chemistry is the solution; there are more than 20 green chemistry centers federally funded by China right now.
They understand that they have created a crisis, and they are going to invent their way out of that crisis. The sad thing is that were paying for it--its our appetite for all of these disposable materials.
Our goal is to always get greener. There are plastics that are greener than others. Theres probably nothing out there that wed call truly green,
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