UK Grocer Makes Palm Oil Pledge for Home Brand

UK supermarket chain Waitrose has made a pledge that it will only use “sustainable” palm oil in its home-brand range.

Palm oil has long been criticised for its roll in deforestation but is widely used, being the world’s cheapest vegetable oil.

Waitrose said 1,000 of its products will be certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil by 2012, and that it will use GreenPalm certificates in the mean time.