green washing

Green washing is defined as a marketing or public relations trick to make a company look like they are environmentally friendly, when they are not.

(verb)

An example of green washing is creating a new food label with a healthy-sounding brand name for a healthy natural food that is really made by a national company with a terrible environmental reputation.

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