The German Environmental Aid (DUH) has submitted injunctive relief against five companies because, according to the organization, this, according to the organization, is more non -transparent or in an incomprehensible manner with environmental advantages. Specifically, it is about Coty, “sustainable” shoes and clothes by Deichmann or Tchibo, “good for the environment” laminate from Toom and the “sustainability engagement” by L’Oreal.
Jürgen Resch, Federal Managing Director of German Environmental Aid, explains: “More and more consumers are attaching value to environmental -friendliness and climate -friendly consumption. The market is flooded with apparently environmentally friendly or sustainable products – including the companies that we act on now. In every present case, information about the supposed environmental advantages is missing. Companies to operate honest climate and environmental protection and to inform them transparently.
According to its own statements, the environmental and consumer protection organization has confronted around 20 companies with its advertising statements on supposed environmental advantages of its products since December 2024. Some would then have already committed themselves to advertising more transparently with punitive declarations of injunctive relief-including a company of the Bauhaus group, which has advertised a disposable grill of “100% natural materials” and a ceramic pot from “environmentally conscious production” or the Poco furnishing markets that have offered a chair that should be “environmentally friendly”.
