Woolworths & Safeway selling dodgy toilet paper AGAIN!

Surprise surprise! Woolworths Limited has treated consumers like total fools by putting their dodgy and misleadingly labelled Select brand toilet paper back on the shelves.

After being so publicly shamed last month into taking their Select upmarket-home brand off the shelves in Australia and New Zealand, they have put the same toilet paper back on the shelves. I went into my local store last week, and was totally flabbergasted when I saw it! Since then I've checked out a few other shops in the Sydney area, and they too all have the toilet paper back on the shelf.

As far as I'm aware, Woolworths has given no reason as to why they are AGAIN selling toilet paper made by a company that gets its paper pulp by logging old growth forests. I checked their website, but found no statement.

We can not let Australia's biggest supermarket do this and intentionally mislead customers for the sake of their own greedy profits. Our environment is at stake here. When even the Australian Prime Minister admits that we need to address climate change, Woolworths should not be using a company that actively destroys the planet and contributes to environmental damage to this extent.

It's disgusting Woolworths, that you treat us like morons.

Waiting and watching to see what Woolworths and Luscombe do

I was looking over what Michael Luscombe who’s the CEO of Woolworths, looking at what he said last week, and I’m really worried that this is not the end of the problem.

If you look carefully what he said, you’ll see he is leaving plenty of room (semantics, weasel words, call it what you will) so that Woolworths can go away, put new labels on the old product, and use new packaging to put the same old products back on the shelves. The fact that the packaging doesn’t say it’s environmentally friendly doesn’t make the logging of old growth forests and the bullying tactics used by Woolworths’ supplier, in any way acceptable, at all.

That sort of action is totally contemptuous of the public and of ethical practice. If the products come from a suspect company then it doesn’t matter if you change the packaging!

We must remain vigilant - we can’t let Woolworths get away with such fraud. These products should never be put back on the shelves until we can all independently verify that they come from sustainable plantations.

We can’t trust Woolworths to tell us the truth and I don’t want them to get away with putting the products on sale again under new packaging.

Keep contacting Woolworths on the numbers in other posts to tell them you won’t let them get away with treating customers like idiots and destroying forests and habitat in China and Indonesia.

Woolworths admits

Wendy Frew, a reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald has written another story on Saturday about Woolworths. Now the company has admitted to using Asia Pulp and Paper as a supplier.

See the story here ("Admission Tears Strips Off Woolies' Green Tissues" 25th August).

The ABC has also done a report or two on the issue of Woolworths / Safeway supermarkets and their misleading labeling and APP's bad environmental practices - i've put the links in below.

• Woolworths Admits to Deceptive Packaging Claims

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• Certification Body Hits Out At Woolworths "Environmental" Tag

Others watching Asia Pulp & Paper

Here's a link that's really interesting. This group is documenting what APP has been doing illegally.

http://appwatch.blogspot.com/

This is what Woolworths uses to make their Select brand toilet paper. Hardly what you'd call sustainable!

This link shows the intimidation tactics used on local villagers by the company. There is a long history of this behaviour by APP and its subsiduaries, and it continues now -

http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/032005/reynolds.html