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Lecture 02
Background to Sustainable Chemistry
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What is Sustainable Chemistry?
"Sustainable chemistry is a scientific concept that seeks to improve the
efficiency with which natural resources are used to meet human needs for
chemical products and services. Sustainable chemistry encompasses the
design, manufacture and use of efficient, effective, safe and more
environmentally benign chemical products and processes."
Ref: http://www.oecd.org
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Benefits of Sustainable Chemistry
Therefore, technologies that will enable us to use the energy and chemicals to
maintain our current standard of living and to increase that of the many that
still live under below-standard conditions are very important to our society.
This is one of the important drivers behind the search for renewable
catalytic technologies