The manufacturer of GLAD waste disposal and food storage bags, hit with $8.25 million federal penalty for making incorrect product recycling claims.
Clorox Australia, the manufacturer of GLAD waste disposal and food storage bags, has been hit with an $8.25 million federal penalty for making incorrect product recycling claims. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) sued Clorox for misleading customers between June 2021 and July 2023 with suggestions certain GLAD bags were partly made of recycled "ocean plastic". These are the tricks advertisers use to fake sustainable products Photo shows A graphic showing a confused person looking at different plastics. Does a product wrapped in earthy beige make you feel it must be environmentally responsible? New research wants to open your eyes. The ACCC said the packaging on more than 2.2 million products from Clorox's GLAD to be GREEN '50% Ocean Plastic Recycled' Kitchen Tidy Bags and Garbage Bags range indicated they were made of at least 50 per cent recycled plastic waste collected from the ocean or sea. Clorox admitted those products were in fact made from about 50 per cent plastic waste that had been collected from "communities in Indonesia with no formal waste management systems, situated up to 50km away from a shoreline, and otherwise from non-recycled plastic, processing aid and dye", according to the consumer watchdog. The ACCC's case in the Federal Court was upheld after it ruled that the packaging implied a "relationship between the products and the ocean", and that the 'GREEN' label suggested they were environmentally-friendly goods. The court said those references…