While a recent study by Green Up Street, LLC focuses on product packaging, it confirms that cheaper still beats eco-friendly when it comes to consumer products.

The study, conducted for a national cereal brand, presented consumers with two cereal boxes – the company’s current cereal box with no eco-friendly claims and a cereal box made with sugarcane bagasse that featured eco-friendly packaging claims. When told the price and the cereal in the box were identical, one in six consumers expressed purchasing preferences for the eco-friendly box.

However, when the same consumers were told the cereal was the same but the price was 10 percent higher for the eco-friendly packaging, 2 to 1 chose the cheaper box that was not environmentally friendly.

The bottom line: Consumer attitudes are not changing. Cheaper still beats eco-friendlier. And we are talking females ages 25-45! They want to save the environment, but they prefer to save their household budgets.

For more information on the study, click here.