The manufacturer of GLAD garbage bags faces potentially millions of dollars in penalties after the consumer and competition watchdog launched legal action in the Federal Court, accusing it of falsely claiming certain bags were partially made from recycled ocean plastic.
“We are concerned that, by its alleged conduct, Clorox deprived consumers of the opportunity to make informed purchasing decisions, and may have put other businesses making genuine environmental claims at an unfair disadvantage.”Regulators, including the ACCC and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, have been cracking down on greenwashing, which involves making false or unfounded claims about sustainability and climate action.
Between June 2021 and November 2022, GLAD’s small, medium and large kitchen tidy bags stated on the front of its packaging they were “made using 50 per cent ocean plastic”.On the back, it stated the bags were made from 50 per cent ocean recycled plastic, with a disclaimer at the bottom clarifying they were made using plastic collected from communities with no formal waste management system that would have ended up in the ocean.
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