Sunday, April 3, 2011

Green Chemistry

  Name: Nada Al Zahrani

Class: EAP 1 B

 Date: 4/4/10

Major: Chemistry

Reading Reaction Journal # 1

Reference:

Conference highlights UC Berkeley's unique approach to green chemistry (2011, March 23rd). University of California-Berkeley, from http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/62350205/conference-highlights-uc-berkeleys-unique-approach-to-green-chem.html


Summary:

          This article talks about the style of the University of California Berkeley Center in green chemistry. This is the production and marketing of products less toxic and recyclable. The principle of green chemistry is to exploit the products with the environment preservation. The green chemistry is environment-friendly, and tries to apply green principles in all areas of life, and solve problems in economics, business, law and others. It the use of cheaper products with access to high quality and without harming the environment. It tries to re-design education for students through the establishment of laboratories to test the green. It also tries to launch special courses to teach it, and develop research and study this.

Reaction:

          My major is chemistry so I am very interested in topics of chemistry, especially green chemistry. It is important to replace hazardous substances to another friend of the environment.
          I know a lot about green chemistry. But new for me is the attempt to apply the principles of green everywhere and in all disciplines such as law, business and others.
          I think that the green applications would greatly help in building the environment around us. And therefore I agree with these proposals for the green application principles, and the establishment of centers that help in the adoption of these ideas.
         The green chemistry is working for the environment through without use the hazardous substances to the environment or materials that could produce hazardous materials. And green chemistry is now at the beginning of its way and seeks to reduce environmental pollution which is increasing day after day, so I hope for the day when science has overcome the pollution.
           I'm going to replace hazardous chemicals in chemical experiments with other non-hazardous materials whenever possible, or at least cancel very dangerous experiments to the environment during the practical laboratory after discussing the matter with my boss.
          I think the United States is a very advanced at research and green applications. There are many universities that are doing research on green principles. Also, there are specialized centers for the work of this research. In addition to attempting to apply these principles in all fields such as law and business. But in Saudi Arabia there are only two universities interested in green principles. And green chemistry is still its the beginning, and now there is no application of these principles actually.

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