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Our two major tea brands, Bell Tea and Twinings are both active members of the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP). The ETP is a global industry initiative that looks to monitor and improve living and working standards on tea estates worldwide.
The ETP focuses on six key areas of estate life: employment (including minimum age and wage levels), education, maternity, health & safety, housing, and basic human rights.
The partnership has recently reviewed its monitoring programme and developed a new Standard which provides robust minimum requirements in all key areas of labour practices in the tea industry and is based on the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code.
It has also been expanded to capture best practices in community provisions on housing, education and healthcare as well as environmental indicators including water, waste, energy and soil.
More on the Ethical Tea Partnership...
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