Environmental Issues

Green chemistry can be redefined to sustainable chemistry in the aspect of reducing negative effects on environment and human health. Green chemistry can be defined as the redesign of chemical process with the aim of reducing generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry projects include use of environment friendly materials, development of new catalysts, and use of non- toxic, solvent and non volatile substitutes.

In the aspect of sustainable chemistry, the sole aim of green chemistry is to prevent pollution of environment through emission of dangerous gases. The process of green chemistry is applied in organic, physical, analytical, inorganic and biochemistry. The aim of these chemical processes is to reduce pollution and maximize on the efficiency of any chemical choice. It is a way of maintaining the environment green free from chemical pollutants (Paul, John, 2000).

The benefits associated with green chemistry technology are reduction of waste, reduced use of resources and energy, improve competition on chemical manufacturers and produce safer products.  Effective green chemistry should apply such concepts such as design of energy efficient processes. This helps to reduce the wastage of energy in processes that leads to environment pollution.

The design of chemical process should aim at maximizing raw materials used to create the end product. This concept helps to prevent wastage of resources that turns out to be environment unfriendly. There should be use of safe environment substances that are easily soluble whenever it is possible. The solvents help to reduce emission of substances that are hazards to environment. Another basic concept is to use the best method of waste disposal that does not affect the environment (Paul, John, 2000). Waste from chemical process should be treated to avoid toxicity of environment and this can be done through recycling of waste products.