Iceland Bans Palm Oil from its Own Brand Products
The British supermarket chain Iceland has reacted to the continuous environmental scandals in the global palm oil industry announcing this April to remove palm oil from its own products by the end of 2018. Iceland’s managing director Richard Walker stated in the interview that RSPO-certified (multi-stakeholder initiative Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) ‘sustainable’ palm oil does not exist due to continued deforestation of some of RSPO members and the persisting