Giveback Piece

Giveback_Piece                                                                                                                            Giveback_Piece_Presentation

My giveback piece was a presentation on greenwashing and how to avoid it. Greenwashing is deceitful advertising where a company or a product promotes itself as environmentally sustainable when in reality it is not. The presentation was on Tim Hortons’ greenwashing practices to highlight a problem that is evident on campus, with the large number of single-use cups being used. From this experience, I was able to share this problem and promote solutions and practices on how to avoid greenwashing practices to my peers. Some of the solutions suggested to combat this issue at the corporate level was for Tim Hortons to create better incentives for customers to bring their own cups, a truly biodegradable cup, and reusable or washable containers to measure sizes. This presentation made the problem visible for my peers in the class in hopes to create a shift in their actions in order to create a more sustainable world.