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Why Velvet’s claim of protecting forests should be flushed away

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 10th October 2017
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Velvet claim to protect forests, but their suppliers are clearcutting critical areas of the Great Northern Forest
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Comments have been flooding onto Velvet’s Facebook page, admonishing the company for using pulp from vital parts of the Great Northern Forest in their toilet paper. Customers are appalled that spectacular and important forests are being wiped away for luxury loo roll. Velvet has been forced to post a… Read More

In pictures: the Great Northern Forest – beauty and destruction

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 28th September 2017
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Brown bear in Swedish forest.
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We have just launched a campaign showing how Essity, a Swedish tissue producer of well-known brands like Velvet and Cushelle, is linked to the destruction of parts of the Great Northern Forest. The tissue giant uses pulp from mills that are supplied by logging companies which clearcut some of Sweden’s… Read More

Is your loo roll flushing the forests down the toilet?

Posted by Lina Burnelius - 27th September 2017
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Critical forests are being destroyed to make toilet paper
All rights reserved. Credit: Jari Stahl / Greenpeace

You smell it first – the smell of recently splintered trees is so strong that it hits me long before I reach the logging site. Tree stumps are still sticky with resin. A few hours ago this was a lush forest with trees that had stood tall for over a… Read More