Greenpeace takes aim at how Best Buy flyers are produced

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – You know those flyers you get in the mail, advertising the latest bargains at your local big-box store?

Greenpeace has a big problem with all the paper being used to hock holiday goods and it’s focusing on one popular retailer.

Best Buy sources 100 million lbs of paper from the Boreal Forest every year, according to Shane Moffatt with Greenpeace.

“We dug a little deeper and compared their policies to the sustainable policies of other major customers and they really came up short when compared to their peers,” he tells us.

He doesn’t think Best Buy is making sure the paper is coming from sustainably managed forests.

“I think the key issues and the impacts that unsustainable sourcing in the Boreal has is on the long-term health of our forests, the health of our endangered species like woodland cariboo, and the rights of indigenous peoples living in those forests. I think those are reasons that Canadians all care about.”

Greenpeace wants Best Buy’s suppliers to respect First Nations rights, protect the habitats of endangered species, and conserve the most fragile areas of the ancient forests.

“We have not heard from the company yet, but we certainly hope that they’ll see that other companies like Kimberly-Clark, and Hewlett-Packard and Dell have already implemented policies that mean that they’re supporting healthy forests here in Canada, and we’re optimistic that the company will reach out to us,” says Moffatt.

Greenpeace has launched a petition calling for the company to make changes to its policies. We have reached out to Best Buy, but haven’t gotten a response.

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