An article in Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald reports Woolworths (Safeway) supermarkets have suddenly developed an environmental conscience.
The report, by Ben Cubby, details Woolworths’ plan to “conform to stringent environmental standards” by upgrading most of their old supermarket fridges.
The fridges currently in use by Woolworths and Safeway are described as chronically leaking potent greenhouse gas as well as having “high energy consumption”.
So the fact that Woolworths Ltd. has now decided to upgrade some of their environmentally damaging greenhouse gas-emitting fridges, is great. HOWEVER, the faact still remains that Woolworths (including Safeway), continue to permit the destruction of the environment through the suppliers of their OWN HOMEBRAND SELECT tissue products.
Back in November 2007, for the company AGM, Woolworths promised to investigate their suppliers, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) – a company the WWF wont even certify because of all of the environmental damage they do.
Yet Michael Luscombe has done nothing!! The company has not announced their findings, or even that the investigation is underway. If they can not confirm that their toilet paper, tissue and paper towel is from sustainable sources, the product should be REMOVED FROM THE SHELVES. Once again, I think this is just a stalling tactic from Woolworths, hoping shoppers will forget.
Woolworths continue to be an environmental vandal every day they sell the Select toilet paper, tissues and paper towel.
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I have decided I am never going to buy another Select product from Woolworths. I will continue to shop there, but I will not support Select as it is slowly destroying Australian suppliers . Most of the Select products come from overseas.
It is a disgrace that Michael Luscombe makes these "green" claims and misleads consumers. How can he get away with it and why does the ACCC not do anything? I find it astonishing that action is not taken to stop Woolworths
I work for Woolworths, but this is my opinion:
I am strongly against supermarket generic premium brands like Select, but Woolworths is a privately owned business, so the board decides whether a product remains on the shelves; this decision essentially lies with whether the product turns a profit. If you want a product removed from the shelves, don't buy it and encourage others not to buy it; in my opinion it's the only practical way of going about this.
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