How to Use greenwashing in a Sentence

greenwashing

noun

• In the consumer realm, there’s still a lot of greenwashing.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• Earth Day is also when the greenwashing of my email inbox is the worst.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• Sofia: … by the greenwashing that might hide behind some of those statements.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• But even if that’s not the case, do the inflated numbers on the display count as greenwashing?
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• There are a lot of reusable produce bags on the market—and a lot of greenwashing.
  — Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 28 July 2022
• And a lot of the time that's kind of cutting back on some of the greenwashing and making sure that the changes are actually real.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• No longer should that industry be given a get-out-of-jail-free card on its mealy-mouthed greenwashing.
  — Lydia Millet, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• But critics argue the offsets don’t reflect progress at all and instead are a new form of greenwashing.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2021
• Delta’s greenwashing lawsuit should serve as a wake-up call for introspection and change.
  — Gagan Levy, Treehugger, 6 July 2023
• There are a lot of corporations out there that are doing a lot of signaling and greenwashing.
  — Heather Landy, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2021
• But sadly some companies have done it for the wrong reasons - greenwashing.
  — World Economic Forum, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• So there’s the prospect of greenwashing — wineries making claims on their labels that consumers have no way to verify.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2021
• Right now, though, the tools for doing that are mostly being used for corporate greenwashing.
  — Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Much of the progress in the global ESG movement has been repeatedly challenged–and even exposed as greenwashing.
  — Chandran Nair, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
• So is the likelihood that you’ll—rightly—be accused of greenwashing.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• Consumers care more and more, and greenwashing will no longer be tolerated.
  — Adrian Carr, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The private sector faces a massive–and understandable–trust deficit on the back of widespread greenwashing, spin, and straight out lying.
  — Beth Thoren, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2021
• On the other end of the spectrum, ESG investing faces criticism of greenwashing.
  — Laurie Clarke, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
• But the subsidies are inflated and distortionary, even to the point of greenwashing, critics say.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• But … if a company is caught greenwashing, that does more damage and is more expensive to their brand than going out and telling the real story.
  — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those traits allow companies to demonstrate that their climate pledges and actions are real and not just a front for greenwashing.
  — Lily Hsueh, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
• Some of these efforts felt like greenwashing, hiding behind the idea that more bikes equals less cars, regardless of the waste that our industry creates.
  — Brian Park, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2023
• Hydrocarbon sponsorships are pure-grade greenwashing and have no place in the climate change era.
  — Jules Boykoff, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
• However, as seen in the sustainable textile sector, the entry of the big players had resulted in a lot of greenwashing.
  — Tazeen Qureshy, Quartz, 4 May 2023
• Although the number of conscious brands has skyrocketed over the last decade, greenwashing has muddied the message.
  — Hbs Working Knowledge, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Investors, at least, have a few more tools at their disposal to help weed out greenwashing claims than consumers do, including time and money.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• Unfortunately, with the rise of consumer and investor interest in ESG comes the rise in greenwashing.
  — Alana Benson, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• The fashion industry is a prime example - ‘greenwashing’ has long been a concern of consumers and rightly so.
  — Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Philipova says that there is a lot of concern in the investment community around the DEI equivalent of what greenwashing is to climate change.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Siloed and overlapping data, incomplete and exaggerated self-reporting, the lack of measurement standards, and bona fide greenwashing are all culprits.
  — Anirban Bose, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024