{"id":9351,"date":"2021-05-11T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/14\/green-products-arent-always-what-they-say-they-are\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:40:41","slug":"green-products-arent-always-what-they-say-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/green-products-arent-always-what-they-say-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green&#8217; products aren&#8217;t always what they say they are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a recent viral tweet about a plastic bottle dressed up as a paper bottle touched off a conversation about &#8220;greenwashing,&#8221; NBC&#8217;s Today reached out to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/jeanine-stratton\/\">Jeanine Stratton<\/a>, associate professor of business and accounting at Furman who has studied greenwashing. Stratton urged anyone who is curious about the claims made by a product to do their homework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Misleading claims are often subtle,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/tmrw\/greenwashing-101-how-tell-if-product-claims-be-eco-friendly-t215588\">she told Today<\/a>. &#8220;Carefully look at the claim and evidence of an authentic third party verification, for example, claims of &#8216;organic&#8217; on food products must be substantiated by the organization approving the use of the term and a consumer should be able to find that on label,&#8221; she said. &#8220;However, some labels look authentic when they are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a recent viral tweet about a plastic bottle dressed up as a paper bottle touched off a conversation about &#8220;greenwashing,&#8221; NBC&#8217;s Today reached out to\u00a0Jeanine Stratton, associate professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":9352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}