Five firms honored with Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.FIVE FIRMS HONORED WITH PRESIDENTIAL GREEN CHEMISTRY CHALLENGE AWARD. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and and its program partners presented the 2004 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards in a formal ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences this past June. Five winners received awards for innovative yet practical technologies that prevent pollution through cleaner, cheaper, smarter chemistry. The winners were: * Bristol-Myers Squibb Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical corporation, formed by a 1989 merger between pharmaceutical companies Bristol-Myers Company, founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, NY (both were Company, for Development of a Green Synthesis for Taxol[R] Manufacture via Plant Cell Fermentation and Extraction * Buckman Laboratories International Inc., for Optimyze[R]: A New Enzyme Technology to Improve Paper Recycling Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. * Engelhard Corporation, for Engelhard Rightfit[TM] Organic Pigments * Jeneil Biosurfactant Company, for Rhamnolipid Biosurfactant--A Natural Low Toxicity Alternative to Synthetic Surfactants * Professors Charles A. Eckert and Charles L. Liotta, Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant among its facilities and programs are the Frank H. , for Benign Tunable Solvents Coupling Reaction A coupling reaction or oxidative coupling in organic chemistry is a catch-all for a range of reactions in Organometallic chemistry where two hydrocarbon radicals are coupled with the aid of a metal containing catalyst. and Separation Processes Buckman Laboratories' Optimyze technology is designed for enzymatic stickies control in recycled papers. Optimyze is an enzyme technology that replaces more hazardous chemistries and facilitates the use of recycled papers. The Optimyze technology was first commercially available in May 2002. The Optimyze Stickies Control family of products are based in part on newly engineered, patented enzymes, identified and developed in partnership with Novozymes, a biotech based company specializing in enzymes and microorganisms. Novozymes produces and supplies the base enzymes to Buckman. The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Program was established to promote pollution prevention and industrial ecology industrial ecology Discipline that traces the flow of energy and materials from their natural resources through manufacture, the use of products, and their final recycling or disposal. Research in industrial ecology began in the early 1990s. through an EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. Design for the Environment partnership with the chemical industry. The program recognizes outstanding accomplishments in green chemistry in order to demonstrate the scientific, environmental, and economic benefits that green chemistry technologies offer. During the eight years since the beginning of the Challenge Award program, award-winning technologies have eliminated the use and disposal of over 400 million pounds of hazardous materials and have saved more than 300 million of gallons of water. For more information, see http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry. |
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