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As we all know that green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use of generation of hazardous substances. The 12 principles of green chemistry published by John Warner provide a guide for chemists to implement green chemistry. 1. ** Prevention ** It’s better to prevent waste than to clean up waste afterwards 2. **Atom Economy** Maximize the incorporation of all materials 3.**Less hazardous chemical synthesis** Generate substances that minimize toxicity 4. **Designing safer chemical** Produce products that are safer 5. **Safer solvent and auxilaries** Minimize the use of auxiliary 6.**Design for energy effici**ency Minimize energy requirements for chemical processes 7. **Use of renewable fee**dstocks Use renewable raw material 8.**Catalysis** Catalytic reagents are better than stoichiometric reagents 9.**Design for degradation** Design chemical products that can break down into innocuous products 10. **Reduce derivatives** Avoid unnecessary derivatization 11. **Real time analysis for pollution prevention** Develop analytic methodologies needed to allow for real-time 12. ** Inherently safer chemistry for accidental prevention ** Choose substances in a chemical process to minimize the potential for chemical accidents Because the green products meet the above 12 criteria of principles of green chemistry; therefore, green products are appealing to investors as well as to consumers. One of the most important mechanisms that green products are appealing to investors is that green products are manufactured through using less energy and green products itself produces less carbon dioxide which contributes on making the planet a better and livable place. I have chosen bicycles as green products versus cars as not so-green. On the following pages the case has been deeply investigated with more scientific information and logical reasons on this matter.
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