The Hidden Ingredient in Half Your Shopping: Palm Oil
In short: An exploration of the industrial processing of palm oil and its environmental impact in Southeast Asia.
A 1:58 short film in the series “Journey of a Thing”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Academia.edu, “Oil Palm: Fractions & Derivatives Palm Oil process”; WWF-UK, “Making palm oil sustainable”; PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) / PMC (PubMed Central), “Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia”; Nature Sustainability, “Recent expansion of oil palm plantations into carbon-rich forests”; ANDRITZ, “The most efficient palm oil processing technologies”.
Sources used in this film
- Academia.edu — Oil Palm: Fractions & Derivatives Palm Oil process · View →
- WWF-UK — Making palm oil sustainable · View →
- PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) / PMC (PubMed Central) — Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia · View →
- Nature Sustainability — Recent expansion of oil palm plantations into carbon-rich forests · View →
- ANDRITZ — The most efficient palm oil processing technologies · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Academia.edu: Oil Palm: Fractions & Derivatives Palm Oil process
- Also: WWF-UK: Making palm oil sustainable
- Also: PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) / PMC (PubMed Central): Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia
- Also: Nature Sustainability: Recent expansion of oil palm plantations into carbon-rich forests
- Also: ANDRITZ: The most efficient palm oil processing technologies
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