We call on Coles, Woolworths and Aldi to detail their plan to immediately transition away from using Chep pallets made from Victoria’s native forests.
That’s right, your Vegemite is being transported on the smashed homes of threatened species. 🧵
Tag these supermarkets to tell them you’ll take your shopping elsewhere until they live up to their claims of “sustainability”.
This thread outlines some facts you might include in your tweets.
Chep pallets are made from the world's most carbon dense forests. It’s absurd that as climate impacts escalate we’re literally throwing away all that carbon storage as short-lived pallets.
Chep pallets are made from wood supplied by govt logging agency, VicForests. That’s right, those cowboys who are constantly illegally logging and spying on members of the public.
amp.abc.net.au/article/101360…
So Chep pallets are made out of the homes of endangered species like the Leadbeater’s Possum and Greater Gliders.
Extinction by logging doesn’t just happen overseas, it’s happening an hour from Melbourne and these pallets and the supermarkets that use them are driving it.
Chep produces 3,200 pallets A DAY. They are the preferred pallet of multinational supermarket giants because they are cheap. They are cheap because VicForests gets to log our native forests for free.
@Coles claims they aspire to become Australia’s most sustainable supermarket. Transporting everything they sell on pallets made of smashed up carbon sinks varnished with the blood of endangered species would appear incompatible with that goal.
Clearly @Coles needs a lesson on “sustainable timber”
FSC is the certification that VicForests repeatedly tries and fails to obtain (they’re environmental vandals and everyone knows it).
PEFC is an apparently meaningless certification scheme because VicForests qualifies.
So why can’t VicForests get FSC? Well for a start they:
- fail to grow back the forests they log
- don’t survey for threatened species and even cut down the very trees koalas and Greater Gliders are found in
- repeatedly break the law in basically every way you can imagine👇
@ALDIAustralia also needs an education on sustainable timber. Their “sustainable forestry policy” doc starts off well until you realise they’re talking about that meaningless collection of letters “PEFC”, and therefore count VicForests timber as sustainable.
@Woolworths seems slightly further along with their education on sustainable timber certifications than Coles and Aldi. At least theie delivery packaging is FSC.
Too bad that out of sight of customers their goods are shipped on pallets with no such sustainability credentials…
There are other options for pallets - plantation softwood, plantation hardwood, recycled plastic… @Coles, @Woolworths and @ALDIAustralia are CHOOSING to use pallets made from Victoria’s precious remaining native forests.
Call on the big supermarkets @Coles, @woolworths, and @ALDIAustralia to immediately announce a transition away from using Chep hardwood pallets.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.