Risk Assessment and Sustainable versus Green Chemistry

Risk Assessment and Sustainable versus Green Chemistry 

The above paragraph shows that the reasons and dimensions of the accident at Bhopal are connected to many factors, but principally to a lack of management responsibility in plant management and procedures of maintenance of partially decommissioned plants, which were oversized due to poor market-size projections, and to a lack of control by the authorities. 

Sheldon, in an editorial on the first year of activity of the journal Green Chemistry [33], citing a conference of Guy Ourisson (President of the French Academy of Science), invoked the terms black chemistry and red chemistry to describe two shortcomings of many traditional processes  

However, the minimization of the risk, both in terms of environment and process safety, could be equally reached by adopting an on-demand synthesis of phosgene and MIC [46]. This is the approach preferred industrially and evidences that the same goal could be reached by a different philosophy, other than the substitution of chemicals indicated by green chemistry principles. 

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