Sustainability Through Chemistry
The chemical industry contributes to environmental health and sustainability by helping to create the products that make sustainability possible.
Chemicals plays a vital role in the creation of ground-breaking products and technologies that support social justice and improve health and wellbeing, including safe drinking water, a healthy and abundant food supply, and access to new medical breakthroughs that can help prevent and treat infectious diseases, enabling people to live longer, healthier lives.
Chemicals and our Future
Chemists and engineers are embracing sustainability challenges through innovation and are using a life-cycle perspective to minimize or eliminate potential environmental and health implications of their technologies. In schools, curricula are including more instruction on green chemistry, green engineering and life cycle thinking; researchers are advancing the science and tools needed; and academic facilities are teaching by example in reducing the environmental footprint of their campus operations. However, the professional system in which scientists and engineers operate could be improved to further incentivize and support these efforts.
More than 95 percent of all manufactured goods are touched by chemistry, making the capacity to produce and use chemicals safely and sustainably essential to innovation. All our products meet the Safer Choice Standard when our scientist formulate our products.