How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet - Greenpeace

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Which cUStomers
contINUe to prop
UP SINAr MAS?
How Sinar Mas is ‘laundering’
rainforest destruction to the world
Recent research by Greenpeace shows
that many other international companies
are still buying or selling paper products
sourced from APP. These include:
French supermarket chain Carrefour
(eg in Indonesia, China); US supermarket
chain Walmart (in China); 278 French
supermarket chain Auchan (in China); 279
British supermarket chain Tesco (in
China); 280 British retail group WH Smith
(in the UK); 281
US information technology
multinational Hewlett Packard (in
Brazil); 282 US fast-food chain Kentucky
Fried Chicken (in China); 283 Dutch Office
supplies company Corporate Express; 284
and Australian global paper merchant
PaperlinX (e.g. in Australia and the UK). 285
In October 2009, Greenpeace tested 286
paper products from APP’s Gold East
Paper mill in China to see if they were
made using fibre from tropical rainforests
or plantations. The tests were carried
out through an independent laboratory.
Out of the five papers tested, four proved
positive for rainforest fibre (i.e. Mixed
Tropical Hardwood or MTH).
APP China’s Gold East Paper mill
accounts for almost half of China’s
coated fine paper production. 287 It
exports to over two dozen countries 288
and is the single largest export
destination from APP’s Riau-based
pulp mill, PT Indah Kiat. 289 Customers
of the mill’s paper include many highprofile
magazines and books including
as Chinese National Geographic;
CNN Traveller; COSMO (published
by National Geographic); Cosmo Girl
(published by Cosmopolitan); ELLE;
Esquire; and Marie Claire. 290