Science teachers from Sachem High School East were recently featured in a Department of Environmental Conservation e-newsletter.
DEC’s green chemistry candidate school representing Long Island performed a green chemistry version of a reactions lab. This lab replaces traditional reactions involving toxic chemicals, such as lead nitrate, barium chloride and silver nitrate, with benign materials.
DMM’s Toxics Reduction and Green Chemistry Section recently held their third green chemistry workshop for science teachers. Twenty-five teachers from 15 school districts attended a hands-on workshop at Stony Brook, which featured green chemistry laboratory experiments developed by Beyond Benign.
The fourth and final green chemistry workshop will be held in the city next month.
The EPA in Region 2 has awarded additional funding to the Toxics Reduction and Green Chemistry section to enable them to share their program with schools in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Binghamton and Siena College’s Green Chemistry Summer Institute.