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Sep 23rd, 2018, 14:46 | #1 |
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Carnauba Wax comes from Palm oil detroying the rainforest
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makes it easier to shine the car. Lovely. Seems to be in almost every product these days, I suspect in tiny quantity, just enough for it to be legal to put it on the label. BUT theres a downside. It comes from palm oil, widely critised for wholesale destruction of rainforest. Perhaps y dont care about a few orangutangs and indigenous tribes. You will care when theres not enough air to breathe. I say - dont buy it. Use some noxious chemical brew withour palm products instead. Equally, dont buy foods with palm oil in, stick to real food and lose some lard.
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You learn something new every day as they say. There’s palm oil in just about everything, it’s going to take a lot of change and money to take it out of the food chain, are companies going to be prepared to invest in it?
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Carnauba wax comes from the Carnauba palm which is exclusively grown in Brazil. It is a completely different substance to palm oil. Palm oil production is destroying the rain forests particularly in Indonesia.
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Palm oil is also used in cosmetics, soap, detergents, animal feed etc etc. |
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Sep 23rd, 2018, 21:27 | #6 |
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The jungle in Brazil is also being chopped down for palm plantations, and everything else it seems.
Where d y think all this cheap plywood etc that builders waste comes from
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That may have been true a couple of decades ago but no longer. I have not seen any suppliers of plywood in the UK that sell anything but plywood from PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) managed sources.
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