Design and Evaluation Tools
Applying the principles of green chemistry and engineering across a product lifecycle is good place to start when designing products and processes that are more sustainable.
Applying the principles of green chemistry and engineering across a product lifecycle is good place to start when designing products and processes that are more sustainable.
There are tools that can help your organization design and select safer chemicals, materials and products.
The iSUSTAIN™ Green Chemistry Index is a tool which provides a methodology to generate a sustainability-based score for chemical products and processes. It contains a set of sustainability metrics based on the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry* and takes into account such factors as waste generation, energy usage, health and environmental impact of raw materials and products, safety of processing steps, and others.
The Nike Environmental Design Tool evaluates waste, energy, toxics and water in materials and manufacturing, enabling companies to affect the most significant components of a product’s environmental impact.
The Green Screen for Safer Chemicals is the first open source tool to identify substances that are inherently less hazardous for humans and the environment.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed the Green Chemical Alternatives Purchasing Wizard to reduce the hazardous waste profile in research labs, an effort that ultimately saves MIT, and its researchers, money while reducing hazard potentials and the burden to our environment.
GreenWERCS is a software solution to drive innovation in green chemistry. It can be used by all supply chain members to assess product formulations based on industry and user-defined “green” criteria.
