The American Chemical Society UPRB Student Chapter is a nonprofit organization founded in the University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon Campus in 2010<b>.</b> Our chapter’s main goal is to educate our community in chemistry in diverse aspects of our professional lives as well as daily live. In order to achieve this goal, our student chapter has focused on promoting and acting as ambassadors on behalf of one of the most important and innovative branches in the scientific community— Green Chemistry. As we know, Green Chemistry is a subdivision of chemistry whose main focus is to reduce toxic wastes during laboratory and industrial procedures in order to diminish the negative impact of some chemicals have on the environment. It creates alternatives to toxic substances used in different fields and presents various methods for saving energy. In our commitment to achieve our chapter’s mission, we have created different activities with emphasis on educate diverse communities about the twelve principles and basic concepts of Green Chemistry. Our chapter have offered seminars, promoted webinars, influenced our campus’s chemistry laboratories to lessen chemical waste, and be host of conferences about the importance of applying green ghemistry to every aspect of our daily lives. We also installed posters containing the twelve principles of Green Chemistry in various of our campus’s chemistry laboratories. Our future plans include to continue bringing demonstrative experiments in Green chemsirty to educate to different age groups and different fields.  We also want to collaborate with our university’s chemistry department to implement green chemistry in laboratories, and increase our use of recyclable materials. Furthermore, we plan to host webinars with qualified professionals in this particular field in order to expand our scientific knowledge and learn more tools to apply it to our daily lives.

ACS UPRB: Emerging as green chemistry ambassadors

255th National Meeting (2018)

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