Native forest woodchipping companies and investors

The Dodgy:

Amcor, which produces Reflex paper: it partially owns Boral, CSR, and Harris Daishowa (which owns a large woodchip mill near Eden) and owns half of Kimberly Clarke, all of which screw native forests. Kimberly-Clarke, which makes Kleenex, has just announced that it will pull out of the Otways forest in Victoria due to a highly successful Victorian university boycott. But it continues to log Australian native forests. Carter Holt Harvey is another manufacturer that uses native forest to make toilet tissue. Brand names to avoid include Sorbent, Petal, Chiffon, Scotties, Snowtext, Earthcare (packaged similarly to SAFE), Huggies, Kotex, and Snugglers.

Instead, buy:

100% post-consumer waste paper toilet tissue brands include: SAFE, Softex, Elite, Nature Soft, Tree Free, Naturale, Nice and Soft, Eco, and Ocean Soft. Generic brands such as Black and Gold, Payless and No Frills are often made from 100% recycled paper. Try as well to buy it unbleached. Recycled office paper includes: Steinbeis, Nautilus (also known as Canon 100 and available from the ACT Greens), Envirocopy Yellow Wrap, Datacopy (also known as MoDo), and Lasercopy Premium (also known as Blue Wrap).

Avoid those companies that support the destruction of native forests. Woodchipping investors include Westpac (which also finances Jabiluka and other mines), ANZ, National Australia Bank, The Commonwealth Bank, NRMA Investments, Wesfarmers Superannuation, Zurich Australia Life Insurance Ltd, the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd, and GIO Personal Investment Services Ltd. Mitsubishi Paper Mills is also associated with destruction of old growth forests.

All of the four major banks (ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, and Westpac) have shares in the Ranger uranium mine in South Australia, and have no ethical investment policies at all. It is better to use a building society, but investigate them. You may be banking on uranium or murder.
 

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