Green chemistry reducing environmental waste

Green chemistry reduces toxicity, minimizes waste, saves energy, and cuts down on the depletion of natural resources. It allows for advances in chemistry to occur in a much more environmentally benign way. In the future, when green chemistry is practiced by all chemists and all chemical-related companies, the term green chemistry will ideally disappear as all chemistry becomes green, see also Ibuprofen Industrial Chemistry, Organic Solution Chemistry. 

Billions of gallons of toxic wastes are dumped into the environment every year. Between the damage caused by our industrial lifestyles and the rampant growth in world population, many scientists have predicted that the Earth is headed for a global environmental collapse. In response, science and industry are both working on ways to reduce and limit the toxicity of compounds produced by industrial syntheses. This has led to the new field of green chemistry, in which alternative, less toxic compounds are slowly replacing their more toxic predecessors. 

Green Chemistry can be considered as a series of reductions (Fig. 1.1-5). These reductions lead to the goal of triple bottom-line benefits of economic, environmental, and social improvements [11]. Costs are saved by reducing waste (which is becoming increasingly expensive to dispose of, especially when hazardous) and energy use (Hkely to represent a larger proportion of process costs in the future) as... 

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