Week 3 quiz

ACCHS CHEMISTRY Summer 2020

Class Quiz – Green Chemistry

Your Name: Scott

Today’s Date:Week 3

1. Do you consider Green Chemistry to be an effective Social Movement?

I do, because something has to start changing.  I think that it can be a wonderful social movement if more people were aware of it.  But as for now, it seems that until all the resources are used up or destroyed, the powers that be will keep doing what they do.  But everything has to start somewhere, and it seems like the mindset is where it should be, now we just need to bring humanity up to speed.

2. Suppose you could enforce the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry, which principles would you choose to prioritize?

1-Design safer chemicals and products

2-Prevent waste

3-Design less hazardous chemical syntheses

3. Given J&J are now withdrawing sales of their talcum powder in the U.S. – generally, do we have adequate health and safety controls, in your view? (J&J to still sell baby powder in UK despite US ban)

I do not think we have adequate health or safety controls here or just about anywhere.  We get rid of talcum powder but still import farmed salmon that are banned in Third World Countries.  That is just one example of little care goes into the health of our foods or how close anyone is looking at safety controls.