| Office Depot and Xerox: Hot; Not Kimberly-Clark | 05 December 06 |
 While Office Depot is releasing a "Green Book" catalog of environmentally preferable products it carries and Xerox is investing $1 million in an innovative partnership with The Nature Conservancy, tissue manufacturing giant Kimberly-Clark continues to be under fire for failing to keep its promises to protect ancient boreal forests in Canada.This year's Green Book catalog contains more than 6,000 different products including remanufactured ink and toner cartridges, recycled paper products and Energy Star qualified equipment. A large number of products listed received independent, third party certification through the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Green Seal, Blue Angel or Nordic Swan. Xerox's investment with The Nature Conservancy will strengthen practices used to conserve the world's forests. In Canada, the partnership will help catalyze a science-based data center providing information on ecologically important boreal areas, which stretch from Newfoundland west across Canada. An online interactive database will be available to Xerox's paper suppliers as they conduct planning and logging operations. Greenpeace activists recently confronted Kimberly-Clark at its regional headquarters in Turin, Italy demanding the company "Stop Flushing Canada's Boreal forest Down Europe's toilets" by placing toilet bowls outside the office with trees being 'flushed down'. Almost one-third of the virgin pulp used to make Kimberly-Clark European products and one-fifth of its global pulp is from destructive logging operations in Canadian forests, including the Boreal forest. View the September 27, 2006 Forbes article View the November 9, 2006 Greenpeace press release View the October 20, 2006 GreenBiz News article View the October 26, 2006 Nature Conservancy press release Sources: Forbes, Greenpeace, GreenBiz News, Nature Conservancy
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