ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the various sources of waste generation, how green chemistry helped in reducing waste, and some of the techniques adopted for waste minimization. To cope up with the growing demands, the industries strived hard to increase the production, which led to more and more waste generation. Also, syringes, tubing, vials, chemotherapy drug residues, open containers of drugs containing acute hazardous waste drugs, contaminated garments, etc., result in waste generation. It is important to understand what plastic waste comprises and why it is so problematic. The chapter ends up in our landfills across our planet, causing environmental pollution. Currently, recycling of materials is seen as a possible solution to combating problems associated with waste generation, but recycling can also have some environmental impact. To overcome the problem of waste generation, an alternative strategy was devised that would effectively eliminate the additional steps required for protecting the initial substrate, followed by deprotecting, to render the targeted compound.
