Green Chemistry

What is Green Chemistry?

Green chemistry is a set of 12 principles aimed at reducing and eliminating the use and generation of hazardous materials.

This can also encompass the reduction and elimination of resources, thereby including the concepts of resource efficiency and sustainability. At Envirowise, the focus of Green Chemistry is on industrial applications, so as well as designing out waste through more efficient processes, the principles incorporate the search for less hazardous alternatives.

This is also a theme of relevance to REACH and the Defra-led Working Group on Substitution who organised the recent conference 'Successful Substitution beyond REACH' . At the International level, ChemSec (a non-profit organisation created by environmental organisations) organised a conference in Brussels on similar themes and launched a substitution list, REACH SIN (SIN = "substitute it now").Find out more about Green Chemistry by attending one of our Envirowise events, shownat the bottom of this newsletter.

document by envirowise... for more information go to http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/GG679

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