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Boycott Woodchipping Campaign, Old Growth, Rainforests, endangered species
BOYCOTT WOODCHIPPING CAMPAIGN
(what not to buy)
This has been summarised from the Boycott Woodchipping Manual
AMCOR
(Paper house, Tomasetti, Daltons, part own Spicers)
Currently log Victoria's Central Highlands and Tasmania's north west.
The main focus of the boycott is Reflex Copypaper. Most of the paper and packaging products in supermarkets etc. is produced by Amcor. For a full list of brands and products see the Boycott Woodchipping Manual. Avoid virgin fibre products.
BORAL
Currently logging in NSW.
Cement
- Blue Circle Southern Cement
- Boral Asphalt: Bitupave
- Boral Besser Masonary Ltd
- Boral Brick: Bringelly Clay Pavers, Midland Bricks
- Boral Country (sell sand, gravel etc)
- Boral Australian Gypsum Ltd
- Boral Gas: often supplied through Caltex
- Boral Timber: Risby Straight line, Risby True Line (Tas Hardwood), Embossed Rustic Parquetry, Airthurst George Hidson, Duralam, Hancocks.
Other products to avoid.
- Boral Tyres: Bandag, Barum, Kuhmo, Uniroyal, Michelin, BFG Goodrich
Boral Elevators
- The Gas Connection: (chain store sells everything to do with LPG)
- Plasterboard: Boral Plasterboard, Unispan, Wet Area Board, Wet Area Firestop,
- Shaftliner Plasterboard, Windsor, Basebond 60, Basebond 90
- Roof Tiles: Boral Concrete Roof Tiles, Montaro roof tiles
- Windows: Boral, Wunderlich
- Woodchips: Sawmillers Export Pty. Ltd, Forest Resources
- Kimberly Clarke Australia
Huggies, Kleenex, Ultrasorb, Kotex, Wondersoft, Medesa, Delsey, Kleenex VIP's and Snugglers.
- Wesfarmers
Currently logging in Western Australia.
Avoid Bunnings, McEwans and WA Salvage.
Don't buy Kleenheat Gas.
Don't buy pine from Wespine
North Forest Products
Currently logging in Tasmania
Reflex Copy Paper
BOYCOTT WOODCHIPPING CAMPAIGN
(what you should buy instead)
Gas
Elgas, CIG and Norvac.
Cement
CSR, Pioneer
Recycled Paper
Steinbels (100% post consumer domestic waste)
Cyclus (100% post consumer office and copy shop waste)
Nautilus (distributed in Australia as Canon 100)
RC 100 Copy Paper (100% post consumer waste, but owned by AMCOR)
Recycled Stationary
Ecopaper (Australian owned)
Evolution (contains hemp, straw and recycled fibres) is imported by Spicers Paper, which is 45% owned by Amcor.
Timber
Buy plantation pine produced by growers other than Wespine
Don't buy any WA native timber species (Jarrah, Karri, marri, sheoak, blackbutt, wandoo, tingle, sandalwood) unless it is recycled.
Avoid AMCOR-owned Brown and Dureau, Boral Timber and Bunnings and McEwans Hardware stores.
Not-so-good alternatives
These products are all produced by Amcor yet are not produced from virgin fibre. As Amcor dominates the domestic paper manufacturing market is hard to avoid buying Amcor. They do not produce a genuine 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Most products labelled "recycled" are pre-consumer waste such as printer's offcuts and are not, strictly speaking, recycled.
The Paper House
Prologue (100% recycled content)
Renew Recycled Copy 100 (at most 10% post consumer waste)
Renew Recycled Copy 80 (includes 20% virgin fibre) - AVOID
Enviro Board (100% recycled box board)
Origin (100% recycled)
Origin V111 (100% recycled)
VOrigin V111 Laid & Wove envelopes (100% recycled)
Recycle 100% Copy
Sandpiper (some postconsumer content)
Prologue (100% recycled fibre content)
Lawson (100% recycled and envelopes)
Dalton Fine Paper
Clipper 100% recycled
Tomasetti
Re Right (100% recycled - three types)
OZ Copy Recycled (100% Australian Recycled)
Environment (owned by subsidery of Kimberly Clarke USA)
Recycled Writing (25% cotton 30% postconsumer 45% preconsumer)
Recycled Text (30% postconsumer 70% preconsumer)
Recycled Cover (30% postconsumer 70% preconsumer)
Write to the companies and tell them you're boycotting and why, and that you have told family, friends and workmates to do likewise.
- Amcor
Southgate Tower East
40 City Rd South Melbourne
VIC 3205
- Australian Paper
685 Bourke Rd Camberwell
VIC 3125
- Boral
Tony Berg (Managing Director)
Lvl 39 AMP Centre
50 Bridge Rd Sydney
NSW 2000
- Wesfarmers
Michael Chaney (Managing Director)
11th Floor Wesfarmers House
40 The Esplanade Perth
WA 6000
- North Forest Products
North House
Lvl 6 476 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne Vic 3004
- Kimberly Clarke
Consumer Advisory Service
Ph: 1 800 028 334
All information from
"Boycott Woodchipping: A Consumer and Investment Manual" 1996
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