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Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour slammed over paper procurement
Global retail giants including Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour have been accused of buying paper products from an Indonesian producer that is allegedly destroying protected rainforests.
Greenpeace made the accusations in a new report which examines the activities of Asia Pulp & Paper, a pulp producer owned by Indonesia's Sinar Mas group. "Sinar Mas continues to acquire and destroy forested tiger habitat, and continues to clear carbon-rich peatlands to feed its Sumatran pulp mills," Greenpeace stated.
The Financial Times pointed out that Greenpeace does not directly accuse Sinar Mas of breaking the law, but the environmental group argues that the Indonesian firm's licences to operate on rainforests should not have been granted.
Greenpeace also noted that firms including Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hewlett Packard were all buying products from APP. The FT notes that the report also lists WH Smith, the retail group, Corporate Express, the Dutch office supplies company now owned by Staples, and PaperlinX, the Australian paper merchant. Greenpeace said that the companies that it has named and shamed should immediately cut their procurement ties with APP.
A Tesco spokesman told the FT, "Tesco does not source own-brand products from APP in the UK, directly or indirectly. We are committed to purchasing timber and timber products only from legal, sustainable sources."
WH Smith added: "All prospective and ongoing suppliers of own-brand paper and timber products are required to provide detailed information on the forest sources intended for own-brand products. We make it very clear that we do not accept any material from APP or any of its known subsidiaries and that this material does not meet our minimum requirements.
According to the FT, Aida Greenbury, APP's managing director for sustainability, said claims that its activities threatened endangered species were "not true".
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