Green Works

After throwing out my toxic cleaning products last year, I have experimented with different brands to find suitable replacements.  Recently, Green Works products (from Clorox) have entered the marketplace.  I bought some the other week to give it a try.

The products seem to work as well as any typical cleaner.  And they are available at the local grocery store, so I don't have to make any extra effort to seek them out.  They are worth a try in my book.

I've started to wonder how Clorox can maintain their integrity by offering two lines of cleaners: a toxic version and a non-toxic version.  Why don't they just quit selling the old line and convert everything to Green Works?  Are any customers really going to get upset if they can't purchase their old toxic cleaners?  If so, maybe Clorox shouldn't want these people as customers.

Perhaps Clorox is in the process of changing their business model to focus on more environmentally-friendly products, I don't know. It's probably just a matter of time until these chemicals get (rightfully) banned in various places anyhow.  In the meantime, Green Works is at least a step in the right direction.

   

Comments

[JBennet]

Damn Matt,

Banned!?! And you're o.k. with that? What about freedom. I don't want to live in some environmentalist dictatorship that forces the Paleo diet down my throat no matter how much I like the diet. Your thoughts on diet and exercise are interesting but you are a goddamn Communist at heart as are so many in the Paleo movement. Its a damn shame. Hasn't statism killed enough people for you? You still want more?

[Matt Metzgar]

JBennet,

I don't really understand your comments. I support capitalism - it has far outperformed any economic system in the history of man.

What's wrong with environmental regulations? Simplifying things into Capitalism vs Socialism vs Communism is just fodder for talk shows. The field of environmental economics is complex, and there are some very smart people working in this area. For example, the whole idea of tradable pollution permits came from economists, in an attempt to use the forces of the market to create higher levels of air quality.

[Adam]

JBennet - Wouldn't a true capitalist like yourself want people to pay the full economic price of the goods they buy? Why should people like Matt and I have to subsidize the toxic chemicals you choose to purchase. Environmental regulation is necessary in a capitalist economy because the market does not charge for negative externalities. If you want true economic capitalism and freedom, consumers should have to pay for the damage to the environment for the products they choose to buy.