Marketers promoting circular luxury products should discard words like ‘recycled’, ‘sustainable’ and even ‘eco-friendly’, say QUT researchers who found consumers prefer a combination of ‘sustainable’ and ‘progress-focused’ action words when considering sustainable luxury buys.

Ms Joenpolvi said similar results were found in posts on the luxury cars – those that included progress-focused language about sustainability achieved well above the average shares on Facebook for each brand.

“The posts that mentioned their luxury cars had ‘sustainable materials’, ‘eco-friendly materials’ or were fighting ‘plastic pollution’ achieve dismal shares, such as just 6 per cent of the average shares for that brand.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I think it’s due to people assuming there are tradeoffs for being sustainable, and if I buy a product that isn’t focused on being sustainable for the same price then I’ll get a better product.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOPM
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      3 days ago

      Theres a lot to this, because you could argue that many sustainable products do actually face this issue.

      The early teslas were probably in this category, a lot of features that are standard on cars apparently weren’t available on teslas. I don’t know if thats changed.