Does your company need a green or sustainable product blended, filled, packaged and shipped? We are committed to providing professional services to small, medium and independent companies that produce sustainable substances.
The development of sustainable and green products is becoming more prominent in our industry and we’re proud that we’ve been providing these blending services for many years. We’ve always practiced environmentally safe chemical blending, so there’s not a learning curve when it comes to providing your campaign green and sustainable blending.
See how the EPA describes Green Chemistry below:
*Basics of Green Chemistry
Green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry applies across the life cycle of a chemical product, including its design, manufacture, use, and ultimate disposal.
Green chemistry:
- Prevents pollution at the molecular level
- Is a philosophy that applies to all areas of chemistry, not a single discipline of chemistry
- Applies innovative scientific solutions to real-world environmental problems
- Results in source reduction because it prevents the generation of pollution
- Reduces the negative impacts of chemical products and processes on human health and the environment
- Lessens and sometimes eliminates hazards from existing products and processes
- Designs chemical products and processes to reduce their intrinsic hazards
How Green Chemistry Prevents Pollution
Green chemistry reduces pollution at its source by minimizing or eliminating the hazards of chemical feedstocks, reagents, solvents, and products.
This is not the same as cleaning up pollution (also called remediation), which involves treating waste streams (end-of-the-pipe treatment) or cleanup of environmental spills and other releases. Remediation may include separating hazardous chemicals from other materials, then treating them so they are no longer hazardous or concentrating them for safe disposal. Most remediation activities do not involve green chemistry. Remediation removes hazardous materials from the environment; on the other hand, green chemistry keeps the hazardous materials from being generated in the first place.
If a technology reduces or eliminates the hazardous chemicals used to clean up environmental contaminants, this technology would also qualify as a green chemistry technology. One example is replacing a hazardous sorbent [chemical] used to capture mercury from the air for safe disposal with an effective, but nonhazardous sorbent. Using the nonhazardous sorbent means that the hazardous sorbent is never manufactured and so the remediation technology meets the definition of green chemistry.
The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry
- Prevent waste: Design chemical syntheses to prevent waste. Leave no waste to treat or clean up.
- Maximize atom economy: Design syntheses so that the final product contains the maximum proportion of the starting materials. Waste few or no atoms.
- Design less hazardous chemical syntheses: Design syntheses to use and generate substances with little or no toxicity to either humans or the environment.
- Design safer chemicals and products: Design chemical products that are fully effective yet have little or no toxicity.
- Use safer solvents and reaction conditions: Avoid using solvents, separation agents, or other auxiliary chemicals. If you must use these chemicals, use safer ones.
- Increase energy efficiency: Run chemical reactions at room temperature and pressure whenever possible.
- Use renewable feedstocks: Use starting materials (also known as feedstocks) that are renewable rather than depletable. The source of renewable feedstocks is often agricultural products or the wastes of other processes; depletable feedstocks are often fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, or coal) or mining operations.
- Avoid chemical derivatives: Avoid using blocking or protecting groups or any temporary modifications if possible. Derivatives use additional reagents and generate waste.
- Use catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents: Minimize waste by using catalytic reactions. Catalysts are effective in small amounts and can carry out a single reaction many times. They are preferable to stoichiometric reagents, which are used in excess and carry out a reaction only once.
- Design chemicals and products to degrade after use: Design chemical products to break down to innocuous substances after use so that they do not accumulate in the environment.
- Analyze in real time to prevent pollution: Include in-process, real-time monitoring and control during syntheses to minimize or eliminate the formation of byproducts.
- Minimize the potential for accidents: Design chemicals and their physical forms (solid, liquid, or gas) to minimize the potential for chemical accidents including explosions, fires, and releases to the environment.
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We are proud to provide green chemical blending which is the process of mixing chemicals to create products that are more sustainable and less harmful to the environment. Green chemistry aims to reduce the use of hazardous substances and the creation of waste.
How does green chemical blending work?
- Use safer inputs: Green chemistry uses safer chemicals and solvents that are easier to dispose of
- Create fewer byproducts: Green chemistry creates chemical mixes that produce fewer byproducts
- Minimize energy use: Green chemistry reduces the amount of energy needed to mix chemicals
- Design out toxicological effects: Green chemistry designs products to avoid or minimize toxicological effects
- Make products recyclable: Green chemistry designs products that can be recycled
Examples of green chemical blending
- Cyrene blends
- Blending Cyrene with other organic solvents to create a greener solvent system for organic syntheses
- Green methanol
- Blending green methanol with standard petrol or using it to produce biodiesel
Why is green chemical blending important?
- Green chemical blending helps reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing chemical products
- Green chemical blending helps reduce the negative impacts of chemical products on human health
- Green chemical blending helps reduce the amount of pollution created by the chemical industry
Please contact us to learn more about how we can help your company to produce green and natural products.