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Article

4 Nov 2011

Auteur:
Liz Gyekye, Packaging News [UK]

APP refutes Greenpeace’s Indonesian rainforest claim

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In June, Greenpeace launched an environmental campaign against toy makers that used APP’s paper. Greenpeace claimed that APP uses wood from virgin rainforests that is contributing to the destruction of Indonesian forests. In the wake of this campaign, toy giants Mattel, Lego, and Hasbro announced new paper-buying policies...APP has, now, claimed that Greenpeace has no scientific basis for its claim. It said that Greenpeace employed a...testing company, Integrated Paper Services (IPS), to conduct fibre tests on APP toy packaging...In a letter to APP...Bruce Shafer, chief executive of Integrated Paper Services, made this comment...“IPS is only able to determine the types of fibres present in such samples. We have not, and are unable to identify country of origin of the samples..." ...[A] Greenpeace spokesman said: “This is nothing but PR-driven nonsense by APP...The company’s own documentation confirms that it continues to rely on the use of Indonesian rainforest fibre..."