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SC Johnson Polishes the Enviro-Truth

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A current TV commercial promotes the environmental goodness of SC Johnson, the maker of Raid, Drano, Scrubbing Bubbles and Saran Wrap.

Hardly the kind of products that one associates with a pristine eco-system.

In the commercial, CEO H. Fisk Johnson praises his father for removing chlorofluorocarbons from the company's products in 1975, three years before the government banned them, and brags about making products like Windex, Shout and Pledge "better for the environment and better for your family."

My greenwashing radar was pinging away. ...

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