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Straight out of the gate Adblock Manchester has an application to object to, the replacement of a billboard with a new digital screen in Chadderton. The deadline for objections is Tuesday 28th November 2023. There have been 7 accidents at the junction immediately after the site in the last 5 years, with 11 casualties, one…Continue reading New digital ad screen proposed in Chadderton
The intensive animal farming industry works with advertisers to sell misleading and deceptive stories about meat, eggs and dairy, keeping us in a state of ignorance about the food we consume. We need to break free, and to do so we need to recognise how adverts are playing on our own propensity to turn away….Continue reading How meat adverts stole our empathy
Read on for four easy tactics to resist advertising that promotes hyperconsumerism in the run up to Black Friday. As we enter November, Black Friday and the tidal wave of accompanying advertising for MORE. THINGS. is getting ever closer. Climate crisis? Who cares. Cost of living crisis? Who cares. Not advertising, the mouthpiece and pollution-spewing…Continue reading All aboard the anti-advertising wave for Black Friday
The gas and oil industry have long been the masters of secrecy and misdirection, like the magician pulling a rabbit out of a tophat while they quietly slip the watch from your wrist. And, as Greta Thunberg was carried into the back of a police van and charged with public order offences this week, the…Continue reading Opinion: As protests disrupt ‘Oscars of Oil’, greenwashing wins Best Support Act
The UK advertising watchdog has banned another Big Oil advert for greenwashing, following Adfree Cities’ complaint. Spanish oil company Repsol’s advert was banned for misleadingly focusing on renewable hydrogen, when the firm’s production of this fuel type is not yet in operation and the vast proportion of Repsol’s business remains in fossil fuels. The litmus…Continue reading 🚫 (Another) Repsol advert banned for greenwashing 🚫
This is a copy of our monthly newsletter. If you’d like to receive updates from Adfree Cities or your local Adblock group by email, sign up to our mailing lists now. This week, we bring you a special edition from the belly of the Hell Bus, as we continue our anti-greenwash tour across the country….Continue reading Adfree Cities Newsletter – Special Hell Bus Edition, October 2023