FTC Order Requires Firm to Have Distributors Take Down Ads With Unsupported Claims
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. A Wisconsin-based manufacturer of plastic lumber products has agreed to stop making allegedly unsubstantiated claims about the recycled content and recyclability of two of its brands of plastic lumber.
Under the FTC settlement, the company, N.E.W. Plastics Corp., must have credible evidence to support any recycling-related claims it makes, and is required to tell its distributors to remove…
