Green Chemistry Benign by Design

Green chemistry efficiently utilizes (preferably renewable) raw materials, eliminates waste, and avoids the use of toxic and/or hazardous reagents and solvents in the manufacture and application of chemical products. 

Another concept which has become the focus of attention, both in industry and society at large, in the last decade or more is that of sustainable development first introduced in the Brundtland report [23] in the late 1980s and defined as  

Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 

Sustainable development and Green Chemistry have now become a strategic industrial and societal focus [24—27], the former is our ultimate goal and the latter is a means to achieve it. 

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