Comments on: Canada’s competition police crack down on greenwashing

By: John Howard

John Howard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:17:01 +0000

Well I am in agreement with this move of Canada’s Competition Bureau and I really appreciate this step of the agency

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:36:45 +0000

Thank goodness. I was just thinking about this the other day when I drove by a “Smart Center” shopping outlet that was touting its greeny-ness on large signage out front.
WHAT!?
Since when did a bunch of box stores and a giant parking lot ever become green? I don’t care what kind of insulation or CFL’s they switched to. They still promote car culture and the retailers have a gigantic carbon footprint, as they ship all the product from China.
Let’s see some changes to all of this Greenwashing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:22:39 +0000

It’s great to hear the Competition Bureau is getting after this. We all know false advertising claims are a pervasive issue, particularly in consumer goods, but I was shocked to see the scale. TerraChoice conducted a study of bixbox retailers and found that of 1,018 products examined (bearing 1,753 environmental claims) “all but one made claims that are demonstrably false or that risk misleading intended audiences”. Check it out (.pdf on left side of page): The Six Sins of Greenwashing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:32:07 +0000

Awesome site – I’ve added you to my (green) blogroll. I’d appreciate it if you linked back. Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:05:15 +0000

Finally! I hate stuff like “Transfat free!” labels when there WAS NEVER ANY TRANSFAT IN THAT PRODUCT TO BEGIN WITH! It’s not only extremely annoying, it’s misleading.
Now I want them to crack down on Homoeopathic medicine, Chiropractors (who give you a painful massage, then claim they are “rearranging energy” in your body. Riiiiight. They also claim that germ theory is wrong. Hehehehehehe. Idiots. So viruses don’t make me sick, huh?), and things like “anti-ageing” cosmetics. All outright lies, but they get away with it because no one bothers to police false advertising claims.