Green Chemistry Challenge Award

The Green Chemistry Challenge Award recognises and promotes fundamental and innovative chemical methods that accomplish pollution prevention through source reduction and that have broad applicability in industry, and recognise contributions to education in Green Chemistry. Green Chemistry is relevant to all Divisions of the RACI and the Awards are non-Divisional based.

Green Chemistry involves a reduction in, or elimination of, the use or generation of hazardous materials, including feedstock, re-agents, solvents, products, and by-products, from a chemical process. Green Chemistry encompasses all aspects and types of chemical processes, including synthesis, catalysis, analysis, monitoring, separations and reaction conditions that reduce impacts on human health and the environment relative to the current state of the art.

The evaluation of the new technology’s impact will include considerations of the health and environmental effects throughout the technology’s lifecycle with recognition of the necessity for incremental improvements.

The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards are open to all individuals, groups and organisations, both non-profit and for profit, including academia, government, and industry. The nominated Green Chemistry Technology must have reached a significant milestone within the past 5 years in Australia (e.g. been researched, demonstrated, implemented, applied, patented, etc.).

Not awarded in 2011