Green chemistry is the design, production, and management of chemicals and chemical systems in ways that integrate and respect environmental considerations and values. Examples include the development, deployment, and eventual banning of chlorofluorocarbons, which were ideal green chemicals but were eventually discovered to be significantly impacting an important earth system, the stratospheric ozone layer. Another example is the development and deployment of certain antibiotic soaps in consumer products which impacts certain surface waters significantly because the compounds are not destroyed in routine water treatment practices












