A few examples that stood out to me:
Online grocery stores that proudly email receipts instead of printing them—but force you to buy new plastic/paper bags with every delivery instead of offering reusable crates for regular customers.
"100% recycled plastic" bottles that conveniently don't mention plastic degrades with each recycling cycle and ends up in landfills after a few rounds anyway.
Budget airlines that ask passengers to dispose of trash to "help the environment"—while selling everything in single-use plastic and generating dozens of enormous garbage bags per flight. They've just outsourced the guilt.
Once you start seeing it, it's everywhere.
What greenwashing examples have you noticed? I'm collecting them to build a library in the post. Share yours—the more specific, the better. Bonus points for the subtle ones that most people miss.
oriettaxx•1d ago
olek•1d ago
oriettaxx•1d ago
Anyhow this specific issue is so evident (and embarrassing) that it got public (despite the huge amount of cash ENI spend in advertisement... there is even a specific talk about this historical huge amount in an US ambassador's cable in wiki-leak, of many years ago)
Here some examples (but just search for "eni greenwashing": my kagi search returns many even English good results):
* https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/polluting-education-enis...
* https://www.petersandpeters.com/case/eni-fine-in-connection-...
Then I just saw this one: https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/how-italian-newspapers... (did not read it, to be honest: I really get too mad)
olek•1d ago