It's about time really. This week the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia) and Channel 10 News in Sydney each aired a report about Woolworths and Safeway supermarkets' contempt for the environment and for shoppers.
The reports, on ABC Lateline and the 5 O'Clock News specifically, told how Woolworths is still stocking the toilet paper, tissues, paper towel, napkins / serviettes, which are made by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). This is in spite of the fact that Woolworths know APP logs forests UNSUSTAINABLY.
The reports told just how terrible Woolworths is by plastering those silly grey stickers over the environmental claims on the back of all the packets (check previous posts for pictures and details).
The reporters gave a demonstration of the stickers being pulled off the back of the packs, and just how dodgy Woolworths are being, trying to cover up the claims of environmental righteousness.
I caught Lateline, but missed the 5 O'Clock News on ten. Luckily they ran it again and I got to see it. Take a look as I'll post up some good footage.
My net connection is slow, so if the videos don't appear below, come back tomorrow as I'll keep trying to upload them.
Showing posts with label corporate social responsbility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporate social responsbility. Show all posts
Friday, February 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Woolworths "breaking its own Corporate Social Responsibility Charter...
...by knowingly selling ineffective and possibly harmful products”
A story in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald says that Woolworths is putting people at risk by continuing to sell herbal weight-loss powders and pills that a leading medical scientist says are dangerous.
Professor Lesley Campbell from St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney is demanding that Woolworths justify its decision to continue selling the weight-loss pill Xantrax, even through the pill distributor has been banned by the TGA from making appetite-suppressant and weight-loss claims.
This is yet another example of Woolworths trying to absolve themselves of their ethical responsibilities. Their Corporate Social Responsibility charter states a pledge to “always be truthful in what we advertise and how we promote the products we sell”. Clearly their charter isn’t worth the paper it’s written on (no doubt supplied by APP from unsustainable forest fibre).
Professor Campbell has ‘put Woolworths on notice’, saying that should anyone suffer an adverse effect or die because of the TGA-banned products they’re selling, that St. Vincent’s hospital will use its record of correspondence to prove Woolworths continued to sell the discredited products despite knowing they were ineffective and possibly dangerous.
I’m glad Professor Campbell is putting pressure on Woolworths about this.
Woolworths just continues to treat us with contempt.
A story in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald says that Woolworths is putting people at risk by continuing to sell herbal weight-loss powders and pills that a leading medical scientist says are dangerous.
Professor Lesley Campbell from St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney is demanding that Woolworths justify its decision to continue selling the weight-loss pill Xantrax, even through the pill distributor has been banned by the TGA from making appetite-suppressant and weight-loss claims.
This is yet another example of Woolworths trying to absolve themselves of their ethical responsibilities. Their Corporate Social Responsibility charter states a pledge to “always be truthful in what we advertise and how we promote the products we sell”. Clearly their charter isn’t worth the paper it’s written on (no doubt supplied by APP from unsustainable forest fibre).
Professor Campbell has ‘put Woolworths on notice’, saying that should anyone suffer an adverse effect or die because of the TGA-banned products they’re selling, that St. Vincent’s hospital will use its record of correspondence to prove Woolworths continued to sell the discredited products despite knowing they were ineffective and possibly dangerous.
I’m glad Professor Campbell is putting pressure on Woolworths about this.
Woolworths just continues to treat us with contempt.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
ANZ should put pressure on Woolworths to be responsible
In case you missed it,
1. ANZ has installed 700+ ATMs in Woolworths and Safeway stores.
2. ANZ was recently ranked as leading global bank in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index http://www.anz.com/australia/support/library/mr/mr20070910.pdf
As the leading global bank in terms of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, should not be dealing with a company that is using unsustainable and un-environmental measures to increase its profits.
I am calling on ANZ to put pressure on Woolworths to do the right thing, and not allow Woolworths to taint the bank’s ranking like this.
1. ANZ has installed 700+ ATMs in Woolworths and Safeway stores.
2. ANZ was recently ranked as leading global bank in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index http://www.anz.com/australia/support/library/mr/mr20070910.pdf
As the leading global bank in terms of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, should not be dealing with a company that is using unsustainable and un-environmental measures to increase its profits.
I am calling on ANZ to put pressure on Woolworths to do the right thing, and not allow Woolworths to taint the bank’s ranking like this.
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