{"id":3096,"date":"2009-04-22T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/22\/the-four-biggest-%e2%80%98green%e2%80%99-marketing-scams\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:30:06","slug":"the-four-biggest-green-marketing-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/04\/22\/the-four-biggest-green-marketing-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"The four biggest \u2018green\u2019 marketing scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/090427_greenwash.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"090427_greenwash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/090427_greenwash.jpg\" title=\"090427_greenwash.jpg\" alt=\"090427_greenwash.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>In greenwashing, as in life, there are seven sins. There&#8217;s the sin of the hidden trade-off, for example, the sin of vagueness, and the sin of no proof. So says sinsofgreenwashing.org, which takes on companies that offer seemingly green benefits \u2013 often at a hefty price tag \u2013 with little results. As the green trend continues, companies in almost every industry vie for a piece of the green market, even the embattled General Motors has taken a chance on its own green product initiative. But as the field of green products grows, so does the number of impostors. The following is a list of some of the most perplexing green products out there-and an assessment of just how scammy they might be: &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30334853\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>. Image source: sinsofgreenwashing.org.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">News selected by Covalence | Country:<\/span><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> Global<\/span><\/st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">: <\/span>Clorox, FuelMags.com, Sephora <span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30334853\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Money<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In greenwashing, as in life, there are seven sins. There&#8217;s the sin of the hidden trade-off, for example, the sin of vagueness, and the sin of no proof. So says sinsofgreenwashing.org, which takes on companies that offer seemingly green benefits \u2013 often at a hefty price tag \u2013 with little results. As the green trend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}