GeorgiaPar - 8-7-2023 at 12:59 PM
Nothing was made overseas until you found out that 98% of the components that they were using were manufactured overseas before they finally put it
together here-greenwashing. Well, what I found was when I was trying to train my own staff here and trying to make it so that when a customer called
up, everybody on staff would be able to give the same information, without influence, to our potential customers. So a lot of these reasons why
products are called green essentially go into a category that we would call greenwashing, which is when a manufacturer or a salesperson essentially
over exaggerates the overall environmental and health benefit because of maybe one little component, and I’ll give you examples. And sometimes,
that means you have to maybe give up a little bit of the eco-friendliness or the sustainability aspect. All these third party solutions give us
information about whether or not a product is considered green. We have to actually look at the ingredients, and we use a heck of a lot of anecdotal
information from the 30,000 customers I’ve worked with over my career to say, generally speaking, here’s what they can tolerate.