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Chemistry: It's not easy being green

In the past two decades, the green-chemistry movement has helped industry become much cleaner. But mindsets change slowly, and the revolution still has a long way to go.

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Click here for a Q&A with the man who coined the phrase 'green chemistry', Paul Anastas.

Katharine Sanderson is a writer based in Toulouse, France.

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Sanderson, K. Chemistry: It's not easy being green. Nature 469, 18–20 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469018a

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