This Week's challenge*
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*All ‘challenges’ must be undertaken with the supervision and at the discretion of a responsible adult
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More than half of packaged supermarket products contain palm oil.
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200+ different names are used for palm oil products. Eg. Palmate, Palmitate, Glyceryl, Stearic Acid, Palm Stearine, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Kernelate.
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85% of palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia, where land-use change emits 500 million tonnes of carbon (equivalent) every year! - 1.4% of global net emissions.
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Large areas of rainforest have been destroyed for palm oil plantations - destroying our precious 'carbon sinks', impacting biodiversity and endangering animal species.
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Look for Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification. A boycott would lead to alternatives being grown - which could lead to more destruction. Palm oil trees produce 4-10 times more oil per hectare than alternatives oils - soybean, coconut, rapeseed or sunflower.
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