Green Chemistry

What is Green Chemistry?

Green Chemistry focuses on the invention, design and application of chemical products and processes that eliminate or minimize damage to the environment while also reducing waste and energy consumption. This gives industry a clean, sustainable alternative for meeting market demands while also addressing the global challenges of sustainability and climate change.

Green Chemistry offers the promise of a profound paradigm shift, in which the emergence of green technologies and methods that prevent environmental damage will complement and eventually eclipse the need for technologies to clean up environmental degradation. Through their embrace of green technologies, the chemical, materials, pharmaceutical and consumer goods manufacturing industries will be contributing to environmental sustainability while meeting the ever-increasing demands of the global market place.

Twelve principles of Green Chemistry 

Areas of research in Green Chemistry