Green Chemistry
Many companies all over the world produce chemicals for their products that are harmful to the environment, human health, and to all living species. Green Chemistry is the use of chemistry for the prevention of chemical pollution to the environment by using chemicals that are benign, or not harmful. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that the mission of Green Chemistry is, “To promote innovative chemical technologies that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture, and use of chemical products.” Green Chemistry contains any aspects and types of chemical processes that reduce the negative effects of certain chemicals, in a way, using chemistry to fight chemistry.
Green Chemistry started after the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 was passed. The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) began to develop ways to make chemical products and processes less hazardous to humans and the environment. There are many principles of Green Chemistry; to prevent waste, to use less hazardous chemical synthesis, design safer chemicals and solvents, make chemicals more energy and cost efficient, reduce derivatives and toxins, prevention of pollution, and accident reduction.
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GREEN TECHNOLOGY - As a consumer, buying an electronic product that are more energy-efficient and less harmful to the environment will encourage manufacturers to produce a product that are safe to our environment. Energy-efficient and safe technology products called Green Technology has been around for a while now. Computers and other electronics are made out of recycled materials that are safe to our environment. If consumers are to buy more of these products, companies will be encouraged to produce green technologies.
This case focuses on corporate obstacles to pollution prevention. Pollution prevention can complex especially for large corporations. There are many different forms of pollution prevention including emissions control devices and incremental changes in existing technology. The author reviews the impact of emissions controlled devices, however the focus of the case study is on incremental changes in existing technology. Incremental changes include substituting one or two steps in a production process or relationship changes between production steps. One example of incremental changes that was provided by the author was eliminating chlorofluorocarbons and saving energy by replacing a refrigeration process with a heath exchanger that can exploit waste cooling from another part of the process. There are three critical decision-making stages for incremental changes; identifying a pollution prevention opportunity, finding a solution appropriate to that opportunity, and implementing that solution. The author discusses the three aspects of an organization (culture, ability to process information, and its politics) and how they impact the decision-making stages.
Green Chemistry is not only used in the lab when handling dangerous chemicals, but is also used in everyday life. Some areas where green chemistry may be applied is in medicine, biodegradable plastic, and paint. Pharmaceutical companies are always looking for better ways to make medications have less side effects by making them produce less toxic waste. Also, more and more companies are trying to create products that use compostable or biodegradable materials. Paints usually have toxic fumes that go along with them. Some painting companies are trying to create a product that emits less toxins to better human health and environmental
By definition, “biometrics” (Woodward, Orlans, and Higgins, 2003) is the science of using biological properties to identify individuals; for example, fingerprints, retina scans, and voice recognition. We’ve all seen in the movies, how the heroes and the villains have used other’s fingerprints and voice patterns to get into the super, secret vault. While these ideas were fantasy many years ago, today biometrics are being used and you may not even know it.
Which shows that transparency principle of GBSC failed at the corporation level. Transparency principle involves truthfulness, deception and disclosure (Paine et al 2005). Truthfulness – dishonest to suppliers/partners; Deception – false marketing and advertising to customers/ competitors; Disclosure – failed to provide unbiased information to investors and employees. Enron restricted “the flow of negative information to continue inflate the stock value and failed to maintain openness to signs of problems” ( Seeger & Ulmer 2003). Enron plotted with auditor Arthur Anderson kept debt off its balance sheet to hide the true condition of the company. Their loans were treated as “income from partnerships and not as liabilities” (Sims & Brinkmann 2003). In fact, Enron scandal seems to have been a foreseeable failure (Gordan N 2002). “Enron CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling and exEnron CFO Andrew S. Fastow created and implemented business ideas that led to major problems” (Fusaro and Miller 2002), which could not be legally or ethically secure, resulting in their collapse (Petrick & Scherer 2003). In this way, they generated wealth for investors and themselves. This creates the ethical dilemma of whether or not to disclose this
Pollution prevention includes any method which reduces the amount of toxic substances used and which minimizes waste streams. The laboratory uses solvents, reagents, and standards that are frequently toxic. Some of these substances may escape into the atmosphere by evaporation, and some are carried out of the laboratory by the fume hood system. Minimizing the quantity of the substances used and minimizing their exposure to the atmosphere are important in pollution prevention. Containers of samples, standards, solvents, and reagents shall be kept closed if possible.
In modern society, humans constantly pollute the environment by using cars, technology, food packaging, and a countless amount of other products. Despite understanding how causing mass amounts of pollution can harm, often there are minimal attempts to correct polluting behaviors, at least until it poses an immediate threat to humans. The idea that the environment is suffering due to our mass consumption through instances of climate change and pollution, is not nearly enough motivation to stop the use of things that may be harmful. In order to address pollution in any respect, there must be an immediate threat to the health and well-being of humanity. Rachel Carson highlights this idea in her
At Johnson & Johnson, they set the health of people and the planet as top priority and as result they set goals to reduce the environmental impact, the company established what they called it proprietary Earthwards this is promoting greener products through lifecycle analysis. The company is committed to apply a strict code of conduct to all employees in in different branches as well as conformity to FDA (U S Food and Drug Administration) laws and regulations Each to ensure the safe use of their products, and the best int...
Biometrics is a preset method to recognize a person based on a physiological or behavioral attribute. The present features are face recognition, fingerprints, handwriting, hand geometry, iris, vein, voice and retinal scan. In the early years of the 21st century, we find ourselves persistently moving further away from the stipulation of physical human interface playing a major part of basic everyday tasks. Striding ever closer to an programmed society, we interact more habitually with mechanical agents, unsigned users and the electronic information sources of the World Wide Web, than with our human counterpart. It is therefore possibly sardonic that identity has become such an important issue in the 21st century. Face recognition has been related as the divine Grail of biometric recognition systems, due to a number of noteworthy advantages over other methods of identification.
With the development of the science and technology, more and more people are going for healthy and green products. According to this situation, there are many companies claim their products are “green”. However, there are thousands of so-called “green” products, but not all of them live up to their claims, a considerable part of products not only damage the human’s body, but also pollute the environment. People called these companies “greenwashing”. Greenwashing refers to the practice of deceiving consumers into believing that a company is practicing environmentally friendly policies and procedures. Seems like anything and everything has “gone green” these days. Such as airlines, car companies, retailers, restaurants, even networks and stadiums. Thankfully, more often than not, that’s a good thing. It is only bad if it is greenwashing — that is bad for the environment and consumers, because of businesses doing the greenwashing.
Hazardous materials are in almost every community placing everyone at some level of contact with various chemicals almost daily as they exist throughout the community and in our households. Chemicals are used for a variety of purposes such as in the water purification process, by farmers to produce a higher crop yield and are used in households and almost every business. Not all chemicals are hazardous but most pose some level of risk to people...
Poliakoff, M., Fitzpatrick, J. M., Farren, T. R., & Anastas, P. T. (2002). "Green Chemistry: Science and Politics of Change." Science, 297, 807-810.
According to the Biometric News Portal, “if the biometric data are compromised, the user may quickly run out of biometric features to be used for authentication.” In other words, you only have a limited number of body parts that you can use for biometric security. If someone were to get ahold of that, the database will not be able to detect identity theft, so whatever is being protected will be accessible. Physical changes such as getting blisters or major changes like losing body parts due to amputation or sickness also contribute to its unreliability and complicate the recognition process. When there are technical difficulties in the database, they are often hard to fix. Recognition errors exist because some computers make approximations to match someone in the verification process. Other minor obstacles include background noise, dirt or sand on your hands, etc. When government surveillance cameras start including facial recognition, they can easily track anyone. Additionally, an article from Scientific American on biometric security states, “Currently if someone commits a crime, cops can go back and review sections of video. Equip the system with facial-recognition technology, however, and the people behind the controls can actively track you throughout your daily
...as heroine, marijuana etc. in the hands of people who take an advantage of he life of chemistry and drastically put the future at risk another example is of preservatives. These preservatives help to keep our food from getting bad but also at the same time causes many diseases.