What is Green Performance Chemistry?
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Microbloc: Winner of the Green Chemistry Challenge Award!
President Clinton announced the Green Chemistry Challenge on March 16, 1995, as one of his Reinventing Environmental Regulations Initiatives. According to President Clinton, the Green Chemistry Challenge was established to "promote pollution prevention and industrial ecology through a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Design for the Environment partnership with the chemical industry." More specifically, the program was established to recognize and support fundamental and innovative chemical methodologies that are useful to industry and that accomplish pollution prevention through source reduction. EPA Administrator Carol Browner announced the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program on October 30, 1995. She described the program as an opportunity for individuals, groups, and organizations "to compete for Presidential awards in recognition of fundamental breakthroughs in cleaner, cheaper, smarter chemistry."
The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program provides national recognition for technologies that incorporate green chemistry principles into chemical design, manufacture, and use. Entries received for the 1996 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards were judged by an independent panel of technical experts convened by the American Chemical Society. The criteria for judging included health and environmental benefits, scientific innovation, and industrial applicability. Five projects that best met the scope of the program and the criteria for judging were selected for the 1996 Awards and nationally recognized on July 11, 1996. This document provides a collection of summaries of the entries received for the 1996 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards.
The approaches described in these summaries illustrate how numerous individuals, groups, and organizations from academia, small businesses, industry, and government are demonstrating a commitment to designing, developing, and implementing green chemical methodologies that are less hazardous to human health and the environment. The approaches described in these summaries also illustrate the technical and economic feasibility of implementing green chemical methodologies and are recognized for their beneficial scientific, economic, and environmental impacts.