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The number of retail products or services marketed as “climate neutral,” “low-plastic” or “packaging reusable” is rising rapidly as they increasingly represent a way for companies to get a competitive advantage. However, environmental claims like these remain largely unregulated, leading to some calling it the “Wild West” of green advertising.
This means that consumers face an opaque world of sometimes robust, but often misleading, irrelevant or even factually wrong claims, in many cases amounting to greenwashing.
A 2020 study by the European Commission found that about half of the environmental claims assessed “provide vague, misleading or unfounded information about products’ environmental characteristics across the EU and across a wide range of product categories (both...
Times of Malta's editorial team has demanded that alleged money-launderer Chris Spiteri remove false claims posted on Facebook against journalist Jacob Borg. An alert has also been filed with the ...