Kimberly-Clark ranked bottom among tissue makers on environment

摘要

Kimberly-Clark, the company behind such household names as Andrex and Kleenex, has finished bottom in a WWF survey of the environmental performance of tissue manufacturers. None of the companies, says WWF, is "offering enough recycled content". The survey rates five leading tissue manufacturers on six issues: fibre sourcing policies, use of recycled fibre, production standards, public reporting of environmental performance, number of mills with a certified environmental management system (EMS) and recent efforts to improve fibre sourcing. The companies could score about 30 points on each of the first four issues, seven on EMSs and 15 on recent gains. The two European firms, Sweden's SCA and Finland's Metsae, scored more than the three US firms - Georgia Pacific, Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark. SCA, the maker of Velvet toilet tissue, tops the survey with 46% of the maximum score - a performance twice as good as the worst performer, Kimberly-Clark (see figure below). Although it finished top or equal top in four categories, the key differential for SCA was its steps to exclude illegal or controversial timber sources from its supplies, including a comprehensive tracking system.