Latest Green chemistry Stories

Dr. Terrence Collins Offers Public Lecture on Growing Field of Green Chemistry September 15 at UC Berkeley Campus BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer concerns over hazardous chemicals in the air and water have led scientists to find solutions in the new field of green chemistry. "The most troubling health effects are associated with endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that may interfere with cellular development in humans and animals," says Dr. Terry Collins, a...

Waste material from discarded televisions could be recycled and used in medicine, according to new research by scientists at the University of York.The chemical compound polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) is widely used in industry and is a key element of television sets with liquid crystal display (LCD) technology. When these sets are thrown away, the LCD panels are usually incinerated or buried in landfill sites.Researchers have now found a way of recovering PVA from television screens and...

BERKELEY, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- VASKA, a Berkeley based producer of green, botanically based laundry care products for the commercial, institutional and consumer markets, is pleased to announce that it has successfully turned the first major commercial laundry plant in the United States (and possibly the world) green! Royal Laundry of South San Francisco is the largest privately owned commercial laundry on the West Coast, washing one million pounds of laundry a week for more than...

Chemical Customers Already Asking For Sustainably Produced Chemicals SAN DIEGO and LONDON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Genomatica Inc., a sustainable chemical company, today unveiled the results of a survey conducted with ICIS, the chemical and energy market intelligence firm, finding that 57 percent of chemical industry respondents believe their companies should reduce exposure to the petroleum-based commodity market. The same majority reported their customers were already inquiring about the...

MATTHEWS, N.C., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- CEM Corporation has won a 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Greener Reaction Conditions category for its Sprint(TM) Rapid Protein Analyzer. The company will accept the award this evening during a ceremony at the Carnegie Institute for Science (CIS) in Washington, DC. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090622/CL35336 ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090622/CL35336LOGO ) The award, presented by the...

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) today announced that it has been awarded the "Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Designing Greener Chemicals" for 2009 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of the White House. The award, administered each year, recognizes individuals, companies and technologies that incorporate the ideals of sustainable chemistry into their formulation, manufacture, and end use....

WASHINGTON, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A veteran chemical safety expert from the American Chemical Society told the House Committee on Homeland Security that "inherently safer technology" (IST) and creative approaches to IST research and development will help secure the nation's chemical infrastructure and safeguard against the consequences of a terrorist attack. Neal Langerman, Ph.D., a former chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety, with more than 20 years...

The following statement can be attributed to the American Chemistry Council (ACC): ARLINGTON, Va., June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the California Senate voted to needlessly restrict consumer products deemed to be safe by scientific experts worldwide. Sadly, SB 797 is not based on science and will not improve public health. Eleven regulatory bodies around the world have recently assessed the science on bisphenol A (BPA) and uniformly determined that BPA is safe for use in food...

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have discovered a new eco-friendly way of dissolving wood using ionic liquids that may help its transformation into popular products such as bio fuels, textiles, clothes and paper.Dr Héctor Rodríguez and Professor Robin Rogers from the University's School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering worked along with The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, to come up with a more cost and energy efficient way of processing wood.Their solution, which...

WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There is a lot of talk about "green," but what does "green chemistry" mean for those companies engaged in the manufacture of consumer products that help household, institutional and industrial customers create cleaner and healthier environments? In honor of Earth Day, the Consumer Specialty Products Association, representing the makers of such products, is sharing its commitment to the development of green chemical technology. "Our industry...