First Green Chemistry awareness raising workshop on African soil

As part of a global initiative, the National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA), in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Center for Green Chemistryand Green Engineering at Yale University, hosted a workshop on Green Chemistry in Pretoria on 18 April 2018. Participants from Cape Town and Durban joined via video conference. Simply put, Green Chemistry is thinking differently about how chemistry and chemical engineering can be done to improve safety, sustainability and efficacy. It emulates nature by using renewable materials that biodegrade easily in the environment and focuses on the inherent nature and properties of chemicals, materials, products, processes and systems; incorporating elements of chemistry, engineering, biology, toxicology and environmental science.