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Green Private Eye
- Why Taking a Backward Step?
綠色探子 - 自打咀巴的環保政策
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Old
type, with paper wrapping
用可分解的紙造的舊包裝
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New
type, with plastic wrapping
用塑料造的新包裝
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Does
it ever cross their mind that ('their' - we
mean 'producers' here) consumers do know what
they buy? We have a case here of a discerning
consumer voicing her dissatisfaction with bad
faith producers who have changed their product
wrapping from environmentally-friendly material
to plastic wrapping without realising that consumers
are well aware of what they buy, including the
packaging that goes with the product.
Ann wrote to Friends of the Earth (HK) telling
us that Andrex bathroom tissue of Klennex, which
is produced by Kimberly-Clark Corporation (distributed
by Kimberly-Clark (Hong Kong) Ltd.) in Hong
Kong, has its individual wrapping changed to
plastic sheets.
As Ann points out, this seems to be "a
backward step to have taken".
Let's check out Kimberly-Clark's Environmental
Report 2002. In the report, the company states
that"wherever we generate manufacturing
wastes, we are committed to recycle them for
reuse in our own products and packaging..."
The more we read on, the more puzzled we got.
Is it another "not-in-my-backyard"
case where environmental policy does not apply
whatsoever to exported goods because the waste
would be dumped into YOUR landfills, not MINE.
Want to get your comments to Kimberly-Clark?
Log on to this
page and fill out its feedback form. You
may also call Kimberly-Clark (Hong Kong)'s hotline
on 2333 3543 or email kchk@kcc.com to voice
your concern.
Friends of the Earth (HK) has been calling upon
the HKSAR Government to put producer's responsibility
and the polluter-pays principles into a regulatory
framework. We also uphold consumer environmentalism
by bringing environmentalism to the personal
level and believe that consumers have the right
to engineer their own values, and to make their
consumption decision based on corporate integrity.
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「環保探子」計劃上月推出以來，首位探子Ann回報，指百年紙巾業老店Kimberly-Clark，旗下「健力士」廁紙包裝「好唔環保」。
根據指控，「健力士」的廁紙最近推出新包裝，不過包裝由原來可以分解的紙，轉為難以降解的膠袋。Ann舉報不義之餘，更質問生產商在環保大趨勢下，為何如此沒良心，走環保回頭路？
Kimberly-Clark貴為百年老店，在環境政策中還「白紙黑字」訂明致力減廢，誇口在設計產品時，盡量減少體積和重量減廢；又說會從源頭減廢、鼓勵回收，並盡量不佔用堆填空間。
其2002年的環境報告，更「承諾無論在哪產生廢物，都會回收再用於其產品和包裝上?」(Wherever
we generate manufacturing wastes, we
are committed to recycle them for reuse
in our own products and packaging?)
事實勝於雄辯，Kimberly-Clark並無兌現承諾。不知對方在環保上是持雙重標準，還是說一套做一套？
想對Kimberly- Clark表達不滿者，可以透過其美國總公司網址發表意見。
你又可以打電話到其香港產品熱線2333 3543或電郵kchk@kcc.com發表意見。
我們深信，集合消費者的力量，能令企業改變有欠環保的政策。因此，請支持「環保探子」，向我們提供情報。
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Be
a Green Private Eye 綠色消費報料熱線
We welcome
information and letters from readers to
share with us your ideas on green consumption
and waste reduction. Please do join us
as a green private eye and report to us:
* Over-packaged consumer products.
Get us the name of the product and the
manufacturer name, short description of
the packaging (e.g. number of layers;
photos will be helpful), and where you
get the 'overly-done' product;
* Price differences.
Let us know the difference between how
much it costs for a product sold in a
refillable pack (or in bulk container),
and the same product with single-use/immediately
disposable packaging.
We'll trace all the sources you provide,
get the manufacturers responsible for
the over-packaging, and reflect to them
that you want only the product, not their
packaging waste. And finally we see to
their reducing all that superfluous packaging
when next time they deliver the products
to the consumers.
Our email address for green private eyes:foehk@foe.org.hk.
Confidientiality guaranteed.
報料內容：
過度包裝產品：提供市面過度包裝產品資料；(請提供產品及生產商名稱、包裝數量、購買地點);
產品價格大比併：比較同一牌子家庭裝和獨立包裝的價格差異，提供消費者至醒消費情報。(請提供產品名稱、購買地點、價格差別。我們會跟進閣下的寶貴資料，整理後定期公佈，同時動員消費者向業者施壓，促使減用過度包裝。
資料請將傳至：foehk@foe.org.hk。個人資料絕對保密。 |
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