Want to boycott the Koch Brothers' products and not have your money going to support the Tea Party

[1776Forever]

Want to Boycott the Koch Brothers' Products? Here's Where to Start
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY Business & Politics

Want to boycott the Koch Brothers' products and not have your money going to support the Tea Party, more dirty polluting political shenanigans, attacks on workers rights to organize? Here's a quick list of the companies you should be avoiding.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/boycott-koch-brothers-products-where-to-start.php

Anything That Georgia-Pacific Produces

First are Georgia-Pacific consumer products: Angel Soft, Quilted Northern, and Soft n Gentle toilet paper; Brawny paper towels; any of the Dixie plates, bowls and napkins; Sparkle, Vanity Fair and Zee napkins; Georgia-Pacific's paper products.

Frankly, many dedicated TreeHugger readers caring about buying post-consumer recycled paper products or (better) using reusable alternatives are probably already avoiding these brands. But if you're not, start.

Second are Georgia-Pacific building products. The list is quite extensive so I'll just refer you to Shoq Value's rundown of them.

Invista's Fabrics, Fibers and Polymers
Third are a whole bunch of products under the Invista banner: Coolmax, Cordura, Solarmax, Supplex, and Thermolite fabrics, as well as those containing Lycra; Comforel fiberfill; Dacron fibers; Somerelle bedding products; Stainmaster carpets and Tactesse carpet fiber. There are also a number of resins on the list.

Oil Refining, Fertilizers, Chemical Production, Cattle Ranching
In addition to those three big areas, Koch Industries is involved in huge range of activities: Pollution control equipment, oil refining, fertilizers--as well as the Matador Cattle Company.

Now, in terms of impact it's important to remember that the Koch Industries is a humungous empire--one of the two largest privately held companies in the United States--so in practical terms a boycott would have to grow by leaps and bounds before having a big impact. But it does have to start somewhere, and even if it doesn't symbolic action is important.

[LisaM]

1. I have a list in my purse for when I go to the store

It would also be really useful to know what we should buy - the good, probably smaller, companies, where our support would make a difference.

[Drale]

2. If they are involved in Pollution control equipment

why would they want to diminish that market by getting rid of pollution controls? Seems, they are not as smart as they think they are.

[1776Forever]

5. I wondered that too but came up with the fact that even they know that can't get rid of all of them.

I am sure they do their homework. I also wondered if these were made in China?

[Sherman A1]

3. Thanks for posting,

I will indeed avoid GP products. Already have started, a few left around the house to use up from previous purchases, but GP will no longer see my dollars if I can at all help it.

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[EFerrari]

6. Boycott Koch on twitter:

http://twitter.com/#!/search/Boycott%20Koch

[glinda]

7. and this list

http://inspirationgreen.com/koch-brothers-products.html

[Politicalboi]

8. We need to make the stores

Who have union workers boycott their shit too. That would put a real damper on the Koch Whores. Apparently contracts were meant to be broken.

[diane in sf]

9. There is Lycra in all my foundation garments--Anyone know of any substitute???

[diane in sf]

10. sorry, duplicate due to posting glitch.