M9.3 Green Chemistry

First, watching the video, I assumed everyone had heard of the great pacific garbage patch. They either fixed the interviews or I am wrong in assuming people know where their garbage can end up.

I have not heard of green chemistry before. I have heard of reducing pollution at the molecular level was something we wanted to do but did not know there was a term for it. I participate in remediation and think this is important but the real winner is green chemistry. For me, I don't know if there is anything around me that has used green chemistry. The EPA has a great website dedicated to it; find it here https://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry

Biofuels seem to be the biggest hope of the EPA. As well as removing solvents from the chemical process for chemicals. They even list what they consider the benefits to the 12 steps. https://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/benefits-green-chemistry

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  1. Sandy TanOctober 26, 2018 at 9:57 AM

    Hi Dan,
    Thanks for the link about the benefits of green chemistry! There are so many benefits, so I agree with you that green chemistry is the way to go. There is a lot of health risks I don't really think about such as just by simply breathing, I can breathe in toxic chemicals. This doesn't really occur to me since there are no immediate effects. Learning about green chemistry makes me think about how much healthier air we can all be breathing.

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  2. UnknownOctober 31, 2018 at 12:18 AM

    Hi Dan,
    I agree, green chemistry seems like a great initiative to reduce the amount of pollutants in the planet. The link you provided is great! Thanks for sharing!

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