| Kimberly-Clark Lying About Pulp Policy | 30 August 06 |
 Greenpeace has written to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking them to look into statements by Kimberly-Clark executives regarding their wood pulp policy. The environmental group publicly revealed investigative evidence July 26, 2006 that the company uses pulp from the coastal temperate rainforests of British Columbia, despite repeated public claims to the contrary.The claims, which date as far back to 1998, appear in numerous company publications including the company's 2006 proxy statement, 2005 Sustainability Report, and correspondences with the SEC. The evidence is compiled in an investigative report entitled Chain of Lies: the Truth about Kimberly-Clark's Use of Ancient Rainforests for Tissue Products, and is based in part on US Customs data. The company has also been implicated in the destruction of North America's largest ancient forest, the Boreal, which is home to endangered species and essential in combating global warming. Greenpeace also announced more than 650 businesses in North America and around the world are refusing to use tissue products made by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The businesses were featured in an ad in the New York Times on August 22, 2006. Kimberly-Clark is the largest tissue product company in the world, manufacturing the popular Kleenex brand of tissue products. View the July 26, 2006 Greenpeace Canada press release View the Greenpeace letter requesting an investigation (PDF) View the report, Chain of Lies: the Truth about Kimberly-Clark's Use of Ancient Rainforests for Tissue Products (PDF) View the August 22, 2006 Greenpeace Canada press release Visit the Forest-Friendly 500 web site Visit Kleercut.net and view information about Kimberly-Clark's impacts in Canada's boreal forests Source: Greenpeace Canada |
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