May 28, 2007
Lipton to Use Sustainable Tea Leaves
Lipton’s parent company, Unilever, has just signed a deal to only buy tea from sustainable and ethical sources.
Lipton is expected to be the world’s first certified sustainable tea by the year 2015. They have signed a deal with the Rainforest Alliance to begin the certification process from all their tea buying sources.
Since Unilever controls 12% of the tea buying industry, the impact of this declaration is huge!
Congratulations to Unilever and Lipton on taking such a drastic measure, and appears to be approaching it reasonably and responsibly.
via treehugger
Filed by erin at May 28th, 2007 on 9:00 pm
under Eco Friendly, Food, Green Business, News | 1 comment
Tags: Eco Friendly, Food, Green Business, lipton, News, rainforest_alliance, Sustainable, tea, unilever
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Full information can be found on Lipton’s http://www.liptonforthefuture.com - website.
Comment by michiel — June 4, 2007 @ 2:27 am