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What is the significance of catalysis?
• Principle 10—Design for degradation: This principle emphasizes the need for
chemical products to be designed in a way that does not lead to environmental
pollution.
• Principle 11—Real-time analysis: Analytical methods should be further developed to allow real-time control and monitoring prior to the formation of
hazardous substances.
• Principle 12—Safe chemistry for preventing accidents: This principle emphasizes that when possible, substances in any process and their forms should be
selected to reduce risks like fires and explosions.
12.2.2 Application of Sustainability in Chemistry
• Sustainable chemistry or green chemistry focuses on product and process designs
that reduce the utilization and generation of hazardous substances.
• Environmental chemistry focuses on the impact of polluting chemicals, while
green chemistry explores the effect of chemistry on the environment.
• Sustainable chemistry is defined as a scientific concept that aims to enhance
efficient natural resource use for meeting human needs.
• It entails the design, manufacture, and utilization of effective, safe, and environmentally responsive chemical processes as well as products.
• It is also perceived as a process that promotes innovation across sectors to achieve
superior performance and value while meeting the objectives of improving the
environment and human health (Berger 2007).
• Sustainable chemistry has numerous benefits, including avoidance of toxic and
bio-accumulative materials, the use of renewable resources, and reducing the
intake of non-renewable resources.
• Other benefits are the reduction of adverse environmental effects of manufacturing and provision of economically competitive technologies that are
advantageous to the industry.
• The major objectives of green chemistry are safe designs, and resource efficiency
could be pursued in various contexts.
• Chemicals that have less hazardous properties are used to reduce their harm to
the environment.
• Chemicals are perceived as sustainable when there are no detectable hazardous
properties. This means that they do not cause damages or persist within the
environment.
• An example of sustainable chemistry is chemical leasing, which is a business
model that focuses on a value-added approach instead of the traditional approach
that seeks to increase the volume of sales of chemicals.
12 Sustainability in Science
What is the significance of catalysis?
• Principle 10—Design for degradation: This principle emphasizes the need for
chemical products to be designed in a way that does not lead to environmental
pollution.
• Principle 11—Real-time analysis: Analytical methods should be further developed to allow real-time control and monitoring prior to the formation of
hazardous substances.
• Principle 12—Safe chemistry for preventing accidents: This principle emphasizes that when possible, substances in any process and their forms should be
selected to reduce risks like fires and explosions.
12.2.2 Application of Sustainability in Chemistry
• Sustainable chemistry or green chemistry focuses on product and process designs
that reduce the utilization and generation of hazardous substances.
• Environmental chemistry focuses on the impact of polluting chemicals, while
green chemistry explores the effect of chemistry on the environment.
• Sustainable chemistry is defined as a scientific concept that aims to enhance
efficient natural resource use for meeting human needs.
• It entails the design, manufacture, and utilization of effective, safe, and environmentally responsive chemical processes as well as products.
• It is also perceived as a process that promotes innovation across sectors to achieve
superior performance and value while meeting the objectives of improving the
environment and human health (Berger 2007).
• Sustainable chemistry has numerous benefits, including avoidance of toxic and
bio-accumulative materials, the use of renewable resources, and reducing the
intake of non-renewable resources.
• Other benefits are the reduction of adverse environmental effects of manufacturing and provision of economically competitive technologies that are
advantageous to the industry.
• The major objectives of green chemistry are safe designs, and resource efficiency
could be pursued in various contexts.
• Chemicals that have less hazardous properties are used to reduce their harm to
the environment.
• Chemicals are perceived as sustainable when there are no detectable hazardous
properties. This means that they do not cause damages or persist within the
environment.
• An example of sustainable chemistry is chemical leasing, which is a business
model that focuses on a value-added approach instead of the traditional approach
that seeks to increase the volume of sales of chemicals.