And yet in another Earth Day-related announcement, The Hershey Co. announced yesterday that it, together with The Forest Trust (TFT), has traced its supply chain to more than 94 percent of all the mills that supply its palm and palm kernel oil globally.
As a result, the supply mapping has given the company insight into its palm oil sources from suppliers originating back to the mill level. This information will help the company better understand if any sourcing is linked to areas of potential deforestation or social challenges within the production of its palm oil. While Hershey completes its mill-level mapping, the company has begun the next phase of work – mapping its palm oil supply chain back to the plantation level – which it expects to complete in 2016.