The P&G Greenwashing Lawsuit

A recent lawsuit accuses consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) of greenwashing and deceiving consumers with regard to how wood pulp is sourced for its Charmin paper products range. 

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David: 00:00

A lawsuit was recently filed against consumer products brand Procter and Gamble or P and G, accusing the company of misleading consumers and engaging in greenwashing with deceptive claims about how it sources the wood pulp used in its charming paper products. The lawsuit claims that P and G sources wood pulp from Canadian forests using harmful logging practices such as clear cutting and burning. The consumers involved in the lawsuit say this is completely at odds with Procter and Gamble's public commitment to protecting the environment, including a keep foresters' forests campaign and the protect, grow, restore logo found on charming packages. The lawsuit also called the display of logos from the Forest Stewardship Council misleading, and apparently Procter and Gamble uses very little pulp from these certified forests. The claim from Procter and Gamble is also that they regrow two trees for everyone harvested.

David: 01:12

This is also challenged. Apparently, when a tree is harvested, cut down, basically, P and G's suppliers are replanting single species plants evenly spaced and covering them in herbicides to intentionally eliminate all growth other than just a handful of tree species the most valuable for logging. The lawsuit goes on to say the company must be held accountable for its environmental destruction of the largest intact forest in the world and stop hiding behind false and misleading claims of environmental stewardship. Wow. What do you think?

David: 01:55

Is P and G guilty of this? Interesting.