Greenwashing

Greenwashing(verb)-expressions of environmentalist concerns especially as a cover for products, policies, or activities

source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/greenwashing

I came across this word when i was reading Professor Rosen’s annotated bibliography “Should restaurant buy local” that falls under Eng Project#2 posts  on our OpenLab site.

Quote :”…makes a strong case against things that are grown locally but with bad farming practices such as factory-farming or in polluting ways either because of pesticides or greenhouse-gas emissions. Ultimately, it argues against so-called greenwashing, which makes bad practices seem environmental just because it has the word local in it, and instead makes a case for foods that are both local and organic.

To help better understand the word is simply when someone creates products that are eco-friendly and it is to convey a brief provided misleading information about how those products are more environmentally sound .

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