153 - Palm oil

153 - Palm oil

I'm not a big fan of candles. Tricksy things looking romantic and looking for trouble. Curtain burning, sleeve singeing sprites.

Palm oil consuming. Apparently IKEA sell super cheap candles, because they use cheap palm oil. This has negative consequences for the rainforest. This Rainforest Rescue page has a letter you can copy and paste to campaign for something more sustainable.

Here is IKEA's statement on palm oil.

I like IKEA and I hope they are genuine in what they say about using sustainable materials.

We can live without candles. But then we can live without almost everything we live with.

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