Newsletters
Title: Green Chemistry and Biodegradable plastics
Volume Number: 39
Issue Number :2
KeyWords: Biotechnology, Biodegradable, ,Plastics
Year of Publication: 2021
Month of Issue:December
Language: English
Pages: 12
Details:Before we discuss Green Chemistry, we must ascertain why it is necessary to discuss it. This is because traditional chemical knowledge, which gave us ~4 trillion US$ business (approx. current figure) called global chemical industry, besides important offshoots such as global pharmaceutical industry (405.52 billion US$ in 2020 and estimated to grow at over 11% rate till 2028) and cosmetics industry (~400 billion US$ and growing), have had a terrible effect on the environment. The motto of all industries till about mid-20th century was ‘dump the waste anywhere’.
