Blogposts tagged 'Boots'

Are your tissues wiping away the last remaining forests?

Posted by jamie - 18 October 2007 at 7:55am - 10 Comments

Tissues: not something many of us spend a great deal of time thinking about. As long as they does the job, what more do you need? But when you begin to consider 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 tissue product guide - search the guide to discover which brands of toilet roll, kitchen towel, and tissues are kind to forests as well as your nose.

Article tagged as: boots, deforestation, forests, league table, product guides, somerfield, tissue paper

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Tissue paper league table

Publication date: 16 October, 2007

A new Greenpeace tissue league table released today reveals how Boots and Somerfield are fuelling the destruction of forests around the world. These companies are bottom of the table, because they sell few if any environmentally responsible tissue products.

omerfield have told Greenpeace that it has no plans to start using forest friendly fibre, while Boots stock only one environmentally friendly tissue product across their entire range. This is despite Boots having publicly committed to move towards sourcing all timber and paper products from well managed forests in 1992.

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