BRITISH COSMETICS RETAILERS LAUDED OVER PALM OIL CHECKS BY WWF
December 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSERVATION group WWF has lauded six major British cosmetics retailers for doing all they can to monitor their palm oil-based product sourcing, reducing its environmental impact. Palm oil has long been a concern of environmentalists worried about clearances of natural habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for palm oil plantations. And the WWF has been pressing western manufacturers and retailers to ensure that if they use palm oil, it has not come from plantations that have replaced rain forest and other valuable biodiverse natural ...
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