4.6 Article

Chemists around the World, Take Your Part in the Circular Economy!

Journal

CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 44, Pages 9665-9673

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002327

Keywords

green chemistry; life cycle assessment; sustainability; valorization; waste

Funding

  1. Universite Savoie Mont Blanc
  2. Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Region (Pack Ambition Recherche program)
  3. Conseil Savoie Mont Blanc (CSMB)
  4. ADEME Agency
  5. SATT Linksium Grenoble Alpes (maturation program)
  6. French National Research Agency (ANR, Young Researcher program)
  7. TRIALP company
  8. EquoVivo company
  9. Societe Chimique de France (SCF and its RJ-SCF)
  10. European Chemical Society (EuChemS and its EYCN)

Ask authors/readers for more resources

Based on recent examples and initiatives reported in the literature, this concept article discusses how chemistry can contribute to the circular economy approach in order to improve our current and future economical, societal, and environmental system. Through five proposed levels of contribution, chemists can take a significant part in this global approachviathe consideration of green chemistry principles, the simplification of syntheses, the limitation of complex products preparation, the efficient utilization of resources but also the novel ways of waste valorization. A more systematic and generalized environmental and economic assessment from the lab-scale is also recommended. At last, chemists have to work even more collaboratively and in a multidisciplinary way, within chemistry and beyond.

Authors

I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.

Reviews

Primary Rating

4.6
Not enough ratings

Secondary Ratings

Novelty
-
Significance
-
Scientific rigor
-
Rate this paper

Recommended

No Data Available
No Data Available