Green chemistry is cleaning up pollution—and preventing it in the first place.
by Kim Ridley with Terry Collins
Industrial chemistry is a dirty business. More than 100,000 synthetic chemicals have been released into our air, water, soil and food, and few have been tested for health effects on human beings or other creatures. The consequences can be debilitating and even deadly as science continues to link exposure to industrial chemicals with diseases and disorders including cancer, reproductive problems, learning and immune system disorders and birth defects.
Terry Collins, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry, is creating chemicals that don’t pollute in the first place.
