Green chemistry: can these eco-innovations help clean up our chemical footprint? Positive News
Chemical pollution has passed the safe limit for humanity, scientists announced this week. That’s the bad news. The good news is that green chemists the world over are working on the challenge
How do the synthetic chemicals used in everything from cars to clothes impact the stability of Earth? That was the question an international team of researchers set out to answer recently.
Their findings? They concluded that chemical pollution has passed the safe limit for humanity and that it threatens the global ecosystems upon which we depend.
“There has been a 50-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950. This is projected to triple again by 2050,” said co-author Patricia Villarubia-Gómez from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
But a new breed of global eco-entrepreneurs are putting chemicals in their crosshairs and offering alternatives to toxic products. Here are six of them.
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