Can a new industry charter help scrub the greenwash out of the UK building products sector?

Michael Holder
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An 'Anti Greenwash Charter' has been launched by the UK's built environment sector signalling growing desire from businesses to tackle misleading environmental claims

Could the tide soon turn on corporate 'greenwash'? The practice is certainly nothing new, but allegations of misleading or exaggerated claims from organisations over their environmental credentials have...

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