Paul Anastas: ‘I’m proudest of being part of a global green chemistry community’

Paul Anastas

Source: © Peter Strain @ Début Art

The father of green chemistry on his love of the environment, striving for unattainable perfection and breathing life into an old town library

I knew at a very young age that I cared a lot about the environment. Our family home overlooked a beautiful, pristine salt marsh that was alive with all kinds of things. Now, the salt marsh is gone; the bulldozers drove in when I was about eight years old and now there’s nothing there but glass banks and insurance companies.