Future Aus
List of companies that are not eco friendly
Some information may be out of date or incorrect
Boycott means refusal to buy, sell, promote, provide services, sell to, support or work for any subsidery and product associated with the companies listed below.
REMEMBER the second most important thing you can do after boycotting these companies is to write to them and tell them you are boycotting them and why. When they keep losing customers, we will make it obvious how they can change their practices and regain our business.
In our modern capitalist democracy - vote with your dollar
Acclaim Uranium NL (AIU) was incorporated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acclaim Exploration NL (AEX) on the 15 May 1997 to pursue uranium exploration and mine development projects in Australia. more info
Adidas: sweatshops
Amcor: (Reflex, Renew, Copyright, Australian Copy Paper): logging 500 000 cubic meteres of timber per year from the Central Highlands, Strezleckis and Gippsland regions of Victoria and buying over 300 000 tonnes of woodchips from North Limited in Tasmania, mainly for their photocopy paper, Reflex. Amcor also own 50% of Kimberly Clark Australia sourcing chips from the Otways and Central Highlands. Amcor have recently announced that they will also be involved in the destruction of the world’s tropical rainforests by importing paper pulp from Indonesia. more info, Corporate Profile
ANZ - financing these logging companies, Calco — Midways — Victoria’s only woodchip mill; TJ Andrews, Hallmark Oakes, Gunns ; Thomas P Clark — logging Tasmania and the Strezlecki’s in Victoria.
AMP: has permits to clear old growth bush land and forest for animal grazing.
Benetton: slavery, sweatshops and human rights abuses
BHP: (38% owners of Fosters): responible for OK Teddi gold mine in PNG that has been labeled the biggest environmental disaster in the Southern Hemisphere.more info
DKNY: sweatshops and human rights abuses
BP: like Shell, they pay the military of the countries in which they mine in order to protect their interests. Involved in large scale environmental destruction in Alaska among other places more info
Boral: second largest exporter of native forest wood chips in Australia. more info
Bunnings: log 400 year old Karri and Jarra forest in W.A. which is exported to Japan for woodchipping.(approximately 900 000 tonnes) more info
Bush (george w) and the the corporations that pay him:rejection of the kyoto agreement and his planned starwars missile defence system. more info
Carter Holt Harvey (Sorbent, Petal, Earthcare?, Scotties, Chiffon): use native forest fibre in their products. more info (scroll down)
Calco logging the Otways in victoria
Cameco is the world's largest single uranium producer, responsible for about 21% of world production. more info
Caterpillar financing the loggers TJ Andrews
Cogema one of the largest suppliers of uranium in the world and the only company to offer every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle to the industry, from mining to waste management. more info
Coke spotlight
Commonwealth Bank: financing these logging companies, Harris Daishowa, TJ Andrews
CSR
plans to site a toxic dump near the town of Werribee. Also had two spills of Copper Chrome Arsenate at Mount Gambier and Dartmoor in the past 2 years which have seriously jeopardised water supplies to these towns. Use massive amounts of herbicides on plantations.