Melissa Romero
Melissa Romero
Policy Associate, Californians Against Waste
Workshop MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Understanding Ingeo in a Low-Carbon and Circular Economy Context
Building a Sustainable Economy Through Truthful Environmental Advertising
As awareness of the impacts of plastic pollution spreads, many companies are trying create alternatives products that won’t have the same environmental impact, but not all “green” alternatives are created equal. The marketplace has become increasingly saturated with products that are marketed with misleading, or all out false, environmental claims create an unfair advantage over the products that are truly recyclable or compostable. To combat this, California enacted a series of landmark Truth in Environmental Advertising laws which make it illegal to falsely advertise products with unqualified environmental claims, and in the past several years, California has made the enforcement of these laws a priority.
About Melissa Romero
As Policy Associate at Californians Against Waste, Melissa’s areas of focus are food waste reduction, enforcement and implementation of previously passed legislation, and legislative advocacy for sponsored legislation. Founded in 1977, Californians Against Waste is a non-profit environmental research and advocacy organization that identifies, develops, promotes and monitors policy solutions to pollution and conservation problems posing a threat to public health and the environment. Californians Against Waste's history has demonstrated it to be the nation's oldest, largest and most effective non-profit environmental organization advocating for the implementation of waste reduction and recycling policies and programs.
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