Powder Laundry Detergent

With my plastic boycott, I started buying the large boxes of Tide but now I know even more. That's why I loved buying my laundry powder from One Stop Eco Shop recently and I'm very pleased with it. Here' s what you need to know about Proctor & Gamble, manufacturer of Tide and other familiar items. Learn more at Rainforest Action Network, https://www.ran.org/campaign/help-frontline-communities-hold-corporations-accountable/

How are Procter & Gamble’s Tide laundry detergent, Olay face cream and Crest toothpaste linked to communities fighting pulpwood expansion in Indonesia? P&G sources its palm oil from the same corporate giant that’s been stealing land from Batak Indigenous peoples in Sumatra, Indonesia to expand its pulp and paper operations. That makes P&G complicit in land grabs.

But many of these communities are now fighting back for their customary land rights. One such community is the Pargamanan-Bintang Maria of North Sumatra. Their extensive farming of rice, local crops and incense from benzoin trees has kept the rainforests and community healthy and intact for decades. Despite their fierce resistance to pulpwood expansion, their forests, and community, remain at risk. More than 40% of their ancestral territory sits inside a pulp and paper concession belonging to Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL).