"Leatherback turtles eat jellyfish and often mistake plastic bags for their main food source. If plastics are ingested by turtles, it usually results in a slow and painful death. Rebecca Hosking, a wildlife photographer from Modbury, saw hundreds of Laysan albartross chicks in the Hawaiian island of Midway that died after swallowing plastics in the sea. After filiming the marine rubbish for the BBC's Natural World she showed a preview of the programme to the shopkeepers of Modbury. They were so shocked that they decided on a bag ban. Every trader has agreed to use environmentally friendly alternatives. The move was announced on the day that the leading supermarkets said that they hoped to phase out giveaway plastic bags within two years". |
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CHINESE FAIRTRADE? "There is an incompatibility in claiming a product is ethical and then manufacturing it in China" said Martin Hearson, of pressure group. Let's Clean Up Fashion. Mr. Hearson claimed workers in the garment industry in China typically are paid 20p to 30p an hour. He also said there were serious issues about the sourcing of the cotton with concerns that cotton which is not fair trade is often picked by child labour.
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WHO IS DOING WHAT? In 2007, Marks & Spencer unveied a P200m " eco-plan"to make it carbon neutral in five years. M & S said " Plan A" was its contribution to the battle against climate change. "There is in no Plan B". By 2012 it expects to be carbon neutral, send no waste to landfill and "set new standards in ethical trading" . The Co-op Group, is probably the prime mover of the retail environmentalists. In 2007 it won the Business Commitment to the Environment award after reducing its carbon emission by 86 percent and introducing a policy that prohibits it from investing in any business whose core activity contributes to climate change. Tesco's strategy has involved a P100 million fund for investment in sustainable environmental technology such as wind turbines, solar panels, combined here and power and gasification and has announced it will cut its energy use per square foot by one-half by 2010 against a baseline of 2000.It will also encourage its customers to use biofuels and help them to save energy in their homes. Its strategy is to be the 'best' supermarket for energy uses.s |
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