An experiment on the recovery and the analysis of ethyl acetate and hexane mixtures was designed for the purpose of promoting the chemistry teaching and research related to sustainable development. The mixture recovered from flash column chromatography by distillation was analyzed by using 300 MHz proton NMR. Its composition was determined by measuring the relative intensity of methyl protons at δ 2.02 and δ 0.86, and then quantified using a calibration standard curve. Analytical and organic chemistry were integrated in this experiment. It is an experiment could give students the understanding of sustainable chemistry through practice, and provides a very useful tool for solvent recovery in research laboratories.