Article Date:
October 5, 2011
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By Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — A few years back, a Toronto drug company started washing its pills with water instead of a dangerous solvent, and began saving $1 million a year.
Now that’s green chemistry, says Philip Jessop of Queen’s University: Instead of capturing and disposing of industrial pollutants, Novopharm stopped producing them in the first place.
Green chemistry is a field where cleanliness joins profits, he told an audience of Members of Parliament and scientists in Ottawa Tuesday.
“I really think that green chemistry prevents pollution without hurting the bottom line,” he said.
