Australia’s Federal Court has sentenced Clorox Australia (Clorox) to pay a penalty of AU$8.25 million (US$5.24 million) for making “false or misleading” representations to consumers by stating that certain Glad kitchen and garbage bags were partly made of recycled ocean plastic. The fine follows legal action by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC). The Glad Products Company, owned by Clorox, is a US company specializing in bin bags and food storage containers. Clorox reportedly admitted to the Federal Court that between June 2021 and July 2023, it “breached the Australian Consumer Law” by stating on the packaging of its Glad tidy and garbage bags “to be green 50% Ocean Plastic Recycled” when the court found that this was “not the case.”
