LAUNCH Green Chemistry Challenge

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LAUNCH Green Chemistry Challenge Deadline: 2014-09-24
Award: LAUNCH Network Support

Seeking innovations that leverage or advance ‘green chemistry’ to transform the system of materials and manufacturing to one that advances global economic growth, drives human prosperity and replenishes the planet’s resources.

Green Chemistry seeks innovations in materials and manufacturing, using the Green Chemistry Principles. This challenge is specifically focused in the following areas with preference for projects that support local, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise inclusion that also create equitable, empowered workforces. Innovations can be technical, processes, business models, enabling platforms, relevant data capture and assessment, and capability building.

• Solutions that reduce the use of hazardous chemicals in materials and processes.

• Solutions that enable the use of low environmental impact, renewable feedstocks.

• Chemistry that enables end-of-life recycling or maximize the potential for closed loop systems while minimizing hazard.

• Solutions that increase energy, water, and raw material efficiency, minimizing the use of constrained resources.

• Solutions that maximize community, worker, consumer, and environmental safety from hazardous chemicals.

• Enabling models, education, and tools to help industry and consumers select greener chemistry alternatives.


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