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This handbook, published in association with Sustainability in Conservation focusses on organic solvents, their impact on human health and the environment and how they might potentially affect the materials of the artefacts which are worked on by conservators.
The aim is to assist in the eradication of the widespread use of the most harmful solvents by providing information to enable their identification and the most straightforward ways of determining alternatives that may be used in their place.
The book will be made available freely on the website of Sustainability in Conservation.
'(...) It gives you some tools to look at your cupboard in a new light and that’s a very good start. It's a good little book, it's well researched to the point and above all else needed. It's a slim book at 75 pages but I firmly believe it's essential in almost all conservation labs and it should fit nicely next to your Velson Horie in the bookshelf. (…) Go read it!'
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Izabella Gill-Brown and Gwendoline R. Fife (with a contributionfrom Fergal Byrne)
Chapter 1 Considerations in defining greener solvents for conservation
Karoline Sofie Hennum and Marie Desrochers (with a contributionfrom Justine Wuebold and Matthew Eckelman)
Chapter 2 A history of ‘green’ solvents in conservation
Aline Assumpção and Lucile Pourret
Chapter 3 Practical steps to greener solutions
Gwendoline R. Fife (with a contribution from Melissa Lewis)
Glossary
Bibliography