APP Exposed! FSC won't certify them

This finally blows Woolworths right out of the water!

Here is a story from the Wall Street Journal that shows the world's most credentialed forestry authority saying APP doesn’t have sustainable products, and that they can't use the FSC logo.

In essence they are saying that APP's pulp and paper come from UNSUSTAINABLE sources - this backs up what i've been saying in this blog for the past 3 months.

Woolworths is again selling the toilet paper from China, still WITH the “sustainable forest fibre” logo. Again Woolworths is misleading consumers.

All of Woolworths’ claims that they will look into APP’s sourcing of paper and pulp are just stalling tactics.

Here's the first bit of the story - click on the link to see the whole thing.

FSC's 'Green' Label for Wood Products Gets Growing Pains By Tom Wright and Jim Carlton

30 October 2007

The Wall Street Journal

The environmental group that runs a widely recognized labeling system to identify "green" wood and paper products has acknowledged that some companies using its label are destroying pristine forests and says it plans to overhaul its rules.

The admission by the Forest Stewardship Council, based in Bonn, threatens the credibility of an organization whose tree-with-a-check-mark logo adorns products for sale at big retailers including Home Depot Inc., Lowe's Cos. and Ikea AB.

Some environmentalists have long complained the FSC's rules are too lax.

A catalyst for the group's move to tighten its standard came earlier this month when it emerged that Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. -- one of the largest paper companies in the developing world and a target of criticism for its forestry practices -- planned to start using the FSC logo. The FSC has also faced questions about companies in other parts of the world that use its logo.

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.

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

False Advertising & False Labelling

These are some of the products they sell, labelled as being environmentally friendly, when Woolworths know full well they're not.

Here is some stuff that I've sourced about their supplier online. Friends of the Earth wrote a paper on APP (who supplies pulp to Woolworths)

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http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/asia_pulp_and_paper.pdf