ABSTRACT

Sustainable development is a key demand in our world of finite resources and endangered ecosystems. Given the environmental imperatives, the potential ecotoxicological/health risks of anthropogenic chemicals/man-produced formulations, and the limited economic feasibility of large-scale treatment and remediation technologies, the currently emerging corrective-to-preventive paradigm shift in the exploitation of rawmaterials, production/formulation, usage/consumption and disposal, as well as in the conceptualization of future developments in these and related activities is unavoidable [1-3].