Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award

The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Program was created in 1996 to promote innovative research in and uses of green chemistry for pollution prevention. This parmership program is led by the EPA s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention in cooperation with the American Chemical Society, other EPA offices, 

The use of greener synthetic pathways involves either implementing a novel, green pathway for a new chemical product or redesigning the synthesis of an existing chemical product. According to the EPA, examples include synthetic pathways that  

Designing greener chemicals involves the development of new materials that are less hazardous than chemicals used in traditional technologies. Greener chemicals would have the following characteristics  

In this electronic world, the dependence on paper products has decreased, but the paper and packaging industry still plays an important role in the economy of the United States, employing about 400,000 people and posting sales up to 115 billion 

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency with partial sponsorship by the American Chanical Society, are given annually to recognize efforts to reduce hazards and wastes from chemical processes and to help meet 

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Green Chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical processes. This non-regulatory approach for pollution prevention occupies a pivotal position in the management of hazardous substances and has been quite successful as evidenced, for example, in the United States by the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. ... 

EPA (2007) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/pgcc/presgcc.html... 

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, 24 168, 171 Presinter thermal processing, ceramics,... 

Results—Two Georgia Tech faculty members who have collaborated for more than 15 years on sustainable chemical processes are among the winners of 2004 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Other examples of results could be published journal articles or recognition from the scientific community. 

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2008) The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award Recipients, 1996-2008, June 2008. 

This manufacturing process received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2006) for alternative synthetic pathways, the IChemE AstraZeneca Award for excellence in green chemistry and chemical engineering (2005), and the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award (2009) for Merck s U.S. Pat. 7,468,459. 

In the USA the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards [7] were introduced to stimulate the application of the principles of green chemistry and many chemical and pharmaceutical companies have received awards for the development of greener processes and products, e.g. Pfizer for developing a greener process for sildenafil manufacture (see Chapter 7). 

GREENCAT A process for making oxide catalysts that minimizes the production of wastewater and uses no nitrates. Developed by Siid-Chemie and piloted in Louisville, KY, from 2001. The process received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2003. 

Examples of industry and academia using green chemistry to move toward sustainable manufacturing are well documented and have been lauded through the U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. These awards were established in 1995 and are presented annually at the National Academy of Sciences. 

Cann, M. C. Bringing State-of-the-Art, Applied, Novel, Green Chemistry to the Classroom by Employing the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1639-1641. 

Argonne National Laboratory received a 1998 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for the development of a novel membrane based process for producing lactate esters.The process uses pervaporation membranes and... 

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