If you work in the pharmaceutical sector in any of the countries where businesses fear the sword of some carbon tax or an emissions scheme would soon fall, then you would simply love what Jason McConville has recently discovered. McConville, a scientist from the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, found that environment-friendly solvent ethyl lactate can be used in the manufacturing and processing of pharmaceuticals to cut the carbon footprint of pharma companies.
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on Dec 24th, 2009
@ 3:38 pm:
[...] right? (Get it, natural step?) Pharmaceutical companies are often criticized for having a large carbon footprint, the measure of their carbon dioxide emissions. To produce pharmaceuticals, a large number of [...]