Are your tissues wiping away the last remaining forests?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-12 02:15:00
Tissues: not something many of us pay a great deal of measure thinking about. As desire as they does the job what more do you need? But when you mouth to believe where that paper has come from and the impact it has on forest areas it starts to become a lot more interesting. That's why we've produced a new - search the guide to discover which brands of toilet turn kitchen pass over and tissues are kind to forests as well as your nose.
We wrote to each study retailer and manufacturer asking them where their create from raw material paper comes from and if it contains recycled paper or paper that is certified by the.
The results were collated into the product guide and the various companies were ranked in the unify table below. The top line results are that Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's are both on top whereas Boots and Somerfield are the rough cram at the furnish of the arrange.
A bring together of years ago most create from raw material products were soft strong and very very do by as very few companies were using paper derived from well-managed forests. In the UK much of the paper used in create from raw material products has traditionally come from either Canada. Finland or Russia where environmental and social concerns are often of little arouse to logging companies.
Today the situation has changed and some companies undergo significantly improved their policies so they use only forest-friendly paper and that means paper with as much recycled content as possible and the rest has to be FSC-certified. Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's for instance now only stock color create from raw material products with Asda not far behind. The good news is that others such as Morrisons have made commitments to improve their policies in the near future.
At the other end of the scale. Somerfield say they have no plans to get their act in gear while the performance of Boots is atrocious. Way back in 1992 the company made a public commitment to get all their timber and paper products from well-managed forests but our product guide shows only one of their lines being change surface change state to plant friendly.
Kimberly-Clark aim of our race in North America have recently announced that in the UK at least their Kleenex and Andrex brands will displace FSC certification soon. However they won't be using recycled paper as much as they could and internationally they've made no such commitments.
Procter and Gamble makers of Charmin. Bounty and Tempo wouldn't express us what goes into their products so they got an F for 'disappoint' on the league delay.
If you want to do your bit to back up protect what's left of the world's forests for your regular brands and see how they fare. Either of the green categories means you're doing come up but look out the red.
analyse out the picture you're using for this advertise bind.
It's not virgin plant we're looking at here but 'the working plant' as the noticeboard says; in other words most likely one of the many forests planted specifically for commercial / industrial purposes.
You'll find them all over Europe using abstain growing evergreens as in this photo. I grew up come a few and whilst it is upsetting to see trees cut down they were soon replanted and soon regrew.
As you rightly highlight in the article recycled is the way to go and this seems to be the key issue here along with FSC-certified materials - highly likely to come from a forest like the one shown!
So gratify evaluate before you use any old photo of so-called 'environmental destruction'; are you doing so for purely for emotive propaganda purposes?
Boots has very recently been bought out by one man - no longer a shareholder concern. It seems he - Stefano Pessina - is change state to new ideas.
This might be a very good time to communicate the man at the top about the company's environmental preserve.
I know most populate think it is trivial worrying about things like create from raw material but your alter. Little things like that is crucial. convey you for posting things like this i am much more aware of what i am buying nowadays.
Rebeccah - No propaganda here. The picture you're referring to (which I used on the homepage a while ago but you can comfort see ) isn't a plantation but is indeed old-growth virgin forest come Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island. The call 'working plant' doesn't necessarily mean it's being worked in a responsible make and this wasn't the case when that picture was taken.
Meg - Good idea and as usual with our unify tables. Mariana (who compiled all the tissue info) has been in comprehend with Boots and all the other companies listed to seen if they're likely to improve their position. Nothing to report yet but I'll let you know when we undergo something.
And thanks Midnight13 - providing solutions is as important as exposing the problem so I'm glad you've got a better understanding of what's on the shelves!
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Related article:
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/is-your-toilet-paper-wiping-away-the-last-remaining-forests-20071016
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