Greenwashing

The corporate regulator is on a winning streak in its greenwashing cases, with a judge rejecting Active Super’s attempt to qualify its “unequivocal” statements about limiting its investment in companies connected to gambling and coal mining.

The Environmental Defenders Office has lodged a complaint with ASIC on behalf of a member of UniSuper, accusing the Australian superannuation fund of greenwashing its products by mislabelling them as ‘sustainable’. 

Clorox has been taken to court for alleged greenwashing, with the ACCC claiming the consumer goods giant misled customers into believing that a line of its GLAD trash bags were sourced from plastic recycled from the ocean.