About Us
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Roger McFadden
Roger McFadden
"Tell me and I Forget, Teach me and I Remember, Involve me and I Learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
Roger McFadden
Roger McFadden
Roger McFadden
Senior Scientist and Green Chemistry Evangelist
Formulate
Roger McFadden
Formulate
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our Services
Teaching the Basics
We provide information about the chemistry of cleaning, green cleaning, green chemistry, green engineering, sustainability, safer chemical alternatives and many other safety, health and environmental topics.
Areas of expertise: Green Chemistry, Green Product Engineering, Chemical Alternatives Assessments, Green Cleaning Product Certifications; Professional Cleaning Expertise. Cleaning and Coatings Scientist and Formulator. Safer Chemistry, Cleaning Applications and Engineering; Environmental Sustainability, Critical Care, Cleanroom Care, Infection Control Practices, OSHA HazCom, OSHA BBP, Alternatives Assessments.
Extensive Public Speaking experience to large and small groups on a wide range of human health and wellness, green chemistry, sustainability, global warming, supply chain, safer alternatives and IAQ.
Smarter Sustainable Design
We firmly believe that we need a revolution in product design with an environmental conscience and commitment to green chemistry and green engineering; the future belongs to companies that integrate green chemistry and green engineering principles to reduce exposure risk and eliminate hazard and waste at all stages of product lifecycle; and we believe that educational institutions can prepare current and future generations and advance the the benefits of green chemistry by incorporating it into textbooks, curriculum and across multi-disciplinary fields including fundamental sciences, business, law and engineering.
Product Formulations
Whether you are a small or large enterprise or if you need a simple 3 ingredient glass cleaner formulation, a 6 ingredient industrial degreaser, 7 ingredient disinfectant-cleaner, a complex 17 ingredient floor finish or a third-party certified green cleaning product you should be able to get a high performance formulation that you own at an affordable cost.
Our Focus and Capabilities
Safer Chemicals, Ingredients and Materials
A safer chemical is a chemical, ingredient or material that is more sustainable and has a reduced negative effect on environmental and human health and performs equal to or better than the product that it is designed or intended to replace.
Our chemical experts can help you identify safer chemical and non-chemical alternatives. Let us help you eliminate and/or avoid the use of chemicals of high concern (CoHC) and prevent regrettable chemical substitutions.
Green Engineering
Green engineering is the design, commercialization, and use of processes and products in a way that reduces pollution, promotes sustainability, and minimizes risk to human health and the environment without sacrificing economic viability and efficiency.
Green engineering embraces the concept that decisions to protect human health and the environment can have the greatest impact and cost-effectiveness when applied early, in the design and development phase of a process or product.
Green engineering processes and products holistically use systems analysis and integrate environmental impact assessment tools.
Conserve and improve natural ecosystems while protecting human health and well-being.
Use life-cycle thinking in all engineering activities.
Ensure that all material and energy inputs and outputs are as inherently safe and benign as possible.
Minimize depletion of natural resources and strive to prevent waste.
Green Chemistry
Green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry is an innovative, science-based and economic-driven approach to reducing or eliminating the use and generation of substances hazardous to human and environmental health across their lifecycles. It is guided by the twelve principles of green chemistry as presented in the book, “Green Chemistry Theory and Practice” authored by, Dr. Paul T. Anastas and Dr. John C. Warner. The twelve principles of green chemistry include:
1 Prevention - It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it has been created.
2 Atom Economy -- Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials used in the process into the final product.
3 Less Hazardous Chemical Syntheses -- Wherever practicable, synthetic methods should be designed to use and generate substances that possess little or no toxicity to human health and the environment.
4 Designing Safer Chemicals -- Chemical products should be designed to affect their desired function while minimizing their toxicity.
5 Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries -- The use of auxiliary substances (e.g., solvents, separation agents, etc.) should be made unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used.
6 Design for Energy Efficiency -- Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized. If possible, synthetic methods should be conducted at ambient temperature and pressure.
7 Use of Renewable Feedstock -- A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting whenever technically and economically practicable.
8 Reduce Derivatives -- Unnecessary derivatization (use of blocking groups, protection, de-protection, temporary modification of physical/chemical processes) should be minimized or avoided if possible, because such steps require additional reagents and can generate waste.
9 Catalysis -- Catalytic reagents (as selective as possible) are superior to stoichiometric reagents.
10 Design for Degradation -- Chemical products should be designed so that at the end of their function they break down into innocuous degradation products and do not persist in the environment.
11 Real-Time Analysis for Pollution Prevention -- Analytical methodologies need to be further developed to allow for real-time, in-process monitoring and control prior to the formation of hazardous substances.
12 Inherently Safer Chemistry for Accident Prevention -- Substances and the form of a substance used in a chemical process should be chosen to minimize the potential for chemical accidents, including releases, explosions, and fires.