Raw materials Natural resources

In the age of raising industrial production the problem of environmental protection becomes a vital aspect in all questions of the human society. The problem involves questions of careful utilization of natural resources (raw materials and energy), the prevention of useless or harmful side-products, environmentally-tayloring of products, and the environmentally acceptable elimination (better recycling) of consumed products. Chemical industry in the widest meaning plays a major role in the solution of these questions. Also electrochemistry can contribute as its main scientific interest lays in the interaction of energy and chemical matter. Thus, in this paper one aspect among several others is mentioned which may play a role in the efforts to find new ways of the protection of the environment. 

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