A new Greenpeace tissue league table released today reveals how Boots and Somerfield are fuelling the destruction of forests around the world. These companies are bottom of the table, because they sell few if any environmentally responsible tissue products.
omerfield have told Greenpeace that it has no plans to start using forest friendly fibre, while Boots stock only one environmentally friendly tissue product across their entire range. This is despite Boots having publicly committed to move towards sourcing all timber and paper products from well managed forests in 1992.
Meanwhile, many of their competitors, such as Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's are only selling ‘green' products and ASDA is not far behind. Others - like Morrisons - have committed to going forest friendly in the near future.
This league table is based on the analysis of each company’s own brand of toilet rolls, issues and kitchen towels, in stores as of September 2007.
