What is Green Chemistry?
Michigan EGLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45LMANkcKI

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0:00 [Music] green chemistry to me means designing the materials and the chemicals that we
0:14 will use in the future that are better for human health that are better for our environment as a whole and that will
0:22 help us to design an efficient planet where we utilize everything in sort of a circular way so
0:30 that everyone's lives will be better green chemistry is a fundamental approach to developing chemical products
0:39 in a very safe environmentally friendly way examples of that would be to make a let's say a drug product without using
0:47 ingredients that are toxic constituents that are toxic or solvents that are toxic and green engineering I think
0:54 refers more specifically to the methods employed so we t to spend a lot of time you know thinking about ways to assess
1:04 the hazard or risk of of a chemical and we spend a lot of our energies there but I think the true potential the true
1:11 value of green chemistry is about Innovation um it gives us again the conceptual framework to start thinking
1:18 about what is it that we want the material to do and how can we achieve that function that we want but in a way
1:25 that doesn't have those impacts I think it refocuses us on where we should be applying our our our energies and our
1:31 intellect in the design of the actual chemicals and products [Music]