What is Green Marketing
  • The study of the positive and negative aspects of
   marketing activities on pollution, energy depletion
   and non-energy resource depletion.
  • Green Marketing or Environmental Marketing
   consists of all activities designed to generate and
   facilitate any exchanges intended to satisfy human
   needs or wants, such that the satisfaction of these
   needs and wants occurs, with minimal detrimental
   impact on the natural environment.
           Why Is It Important
   Limited 
   Resources     Alternative 
                 Ways
                               Unlimited 
                               Wants
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       Green Marketing looks at how marketing activities 
       utilize limited resources, while satisfying consumers’ 
       unlimited wants, both of individuals and industry, as 
       well as achieving the selling organization's 
       objectives.
           Why To Go For It?
      
       •Opportunity
       •Moral Obligation
        •Pressure from Government
         •Competitor’s Environmental Activities
         •Cost factors     
     1. Opportunity
  • Firms marketing goods with environmental
   characteristics will have a competitive advantage over firms 
   marketing non-environmentally responsible alternatives. 
   For Example:
      Mcdonalds replaced clamshell packaging with waxed paper. 
   Because of polysterine production and ozone
       layer depletion Xerox introduced a "high quality" recycled 
   photocopierpaper in an attempt to satisfy the demands of 
   firms forless environmentally harmful product
     2. Social Responsibility
         
  •       Environmental issues being integrated into the 
   firm's corporate culture . Firms in this situation can 
   take two perspectives:
        
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