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Thrift green chemistry

Characteristics Green Chemistry and Thrift have in Common...116... [Pg.105]

Green chemistry is the application of the virtue of thrift to the practice of chemistry, or thrifty chemistry. If this thesis about the correspondence between green chemistry and thrift is correct, the ethical assumptions of thrift should bear similarity to the ethical assumptions of green chemistry. Among the ethical assumptions of thrift are the following ... [Pg.115]

Both green chemistry and thrift are conservative. That is, they hold that valuable things, such as money and resources, ought to be conserved as much as possible (as opposed to being preserved unchanged from their current state or recklessly... [Pg.117]

These common traits show that the ethics of green chemistry are the ethics of thrift applied to the chemical enterprise. If the practice of thrift produces a condition of thriving, then the application of thrift to chemistry through the practice of green chemistry should contribute to a thriving chemical enterprise and a thriving environment. [Pg.118]

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