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"From mince pies and biscuits to lipstick and soap, palm oil grown on
deforested land in south-east Asia will have been hard to avoid this Christmas.
The vegetable oil is found in almost half of all packaged products in UK
supermarkets, according to WWF.
But a growing number of towns and cities are trying to use only sustainable
palm oil, helping orangutans, tigers, Sumatran rhinos and many other threatened
species.
Led by Chester in north-west England, the world’s first sustainable palm oil
city, restaurants, small businesses and arts venues are joining forces to
eradicate deforestation-linked forms of the vegetable oil from their supply
chains. A school dinner provider in Chester has even signed up, the first to be
certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Oxford, Plymouth
and the village of Mochdre in north Wales are following Chester’s lead, with
more expected to follow."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "Chester leads the way; kudos"
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