Honest Tea backs Fair Trade USA vision
Honest Tea, the largest organic bottled tea company in the US, has announced its commitment to Fair Trade USA and the organization's new vision. Fair Trade USA's "Fair Trade for All" vision seeks to expand its reach and impact by broadening the kinds of growers who can be certified and maintaining rigorous standards for working conditions and community development projects. Honest Tea, which represents 15 percent of Fair Trade USA's total community development premiums in the tea category, has purchased over 300,000 lbs of Fair Trade Certified tea and returned over $100,000 to tea gardens in 2011. Fair Trade USA funds education, healthcare, worker safety and organic certification projects in tea farming communities around the world.