"Greenwashing"

"Greenwashing" or the practice of corporations claiming their products are green when, in reality, they're not at all impressive as eco-friendly products.

Defenders of CFLs (you know the new fancy eco friendly bulbs they want us all to use!?) claim these lights are good for the environment because even though they contain toxic mercury, they use less energy than incandescent lights. And since coal-fired power plants release mercury into the atmosphere, the use of less energy means less overall mercury is being introduced to the environment. While this sounds sensible at first, it's still junk logic: How does harming the planet slightly than before deserve a "green" claim of any kind? definitely not green, and definitely not the solution to the light bolb/s situation.

Large supermarkets chains are guilty of greenwashing with their green bags, labeled Eco bags. What they don't tell you is they are actually made from non-woven polypropylene, which looks like woven cotton, but is designed to not actually break down in the environment. Polypropylene is a byproduct of oil refining, so not only is it not biodegradable, but is supported by both the depletion of fossil fuels and the creation of greenhouse gases.

Greenwashing in the ethanol biofuels industry, where gullible consumers are being told that we can simply farm out way out of an oil crisis by -- get this -- converting most of our food into fuel! Ethanol from corn is so energy inefficient that it takes almost exactly one barrel of oil from somewhere else to farm, harvest, process and produce one barrel of oil equivalent energy from corn.

It's more important now than ever to be skeptical of "green" claims by product manufacturers. Everybody's on the green bandwagon, it seems, and even products that are extremely hazardous to the environment often carry some type of green claim. Consumers need to be sharp and do their research on these corporations before blindly buying into their claims of being Earth friendly.


It really is worth reading that label...
http://www.greenoptions.com/forum/thread/121/my-list-of-fakers-and-not-fakers
Even though I don't recognize alot of the products it shows we really cant trust the label...organic or green...