Friday, 3 December 2021
“Clearly” greenwashing
A visit to a local eyewear store on Toronto’s popular Queen Street West turned out disappointing today when their website claims about in-house COVID precautions turned out to be false. For a local store such lack of attention to basic preventive measures in a pandemic call into question their several claims to social and environmental responsibility. TorontotheBetter supports efforts to improve better vision for all through the donation of glasses and the recycling of plastics into frames, as the enterprise reports, but finds it hard to fully endorse enterprises that, in the interest of financial gain, clearly disregard the health of the community in which they operate.