Waste minimisation definition

Within the context of cleaner production, terms such as environmentally benign chemical synthesis and clean(er) synthesis have often proven popular to help define the scope of national or trans-national programmes on waste minimisation. There is no widely accepted definition of clean synthesis but there is reasonable international agreement that the cleaner synthesis of chemicals, i.e. that involving a reduction in the toxicity and quantity of emissions and waste through changes to the process, is likely to be achieved through 4... 

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