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http://extra-extra.blogspot.com [extra!extra!] Its manufacturer, the Kimberly-Clark corporation, has been unwilling to improve its practices, continuing to rely on paper and pulp made from clearcut ancient forest including Canada’s Boreal forest. Kimberly-Clark clears these ancient forests, essential in fighting climate change and providing home to wildlife like caribou, wolves, eagles and bears, into products that are flushed down the toilet or thrown away."

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http://contestedterrain.blogspot.com [Contested Terrain] Oct. 21: Turn up the Heat on Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex): Here's the skinny: Kleenex sells 180 billion sheets of tissue paper each year and not one of them has any recycled content. They can make a tissue that stops the spread of the flu but they can't make them out of something besides 10,000 year old trees?

[auspicious coincidence] kimberly-clark kills old growth trees: That’s because Kimberly-Clark, maker of these products, all but refuses to use recycled paper in its products. Instead, Kimberly-Clark is clearcutting some of the rarest and oldest forests on Earth—just to create disposable paper products.

http://painttheworld.blogspot.com [just another canvas] Kleenex => Kleercut: Its manufacturer, the Kimberly-Clark corporation, has been unwilling to improve its practices, continuing to rely on paper and pulp made from clearcut ancient forest including Canada’s Boreal forest. Kimberly-Clark clears these ancient forests, essential in fighting climate change and providing home to wildlife like caribou, wolves, eagles and bears,into products that are flushed down the toilet or thrown away.

http://wakingupinbliss.blogspot.com [Die By the Sword] Greenpeace- the best laughs for a serious cause: Greenpeace's crack team of forest crime agents has been investigating the company's nefarious activity since 2004. In the course of its investigations, the team has uncovered that Kimberly-Clark is behind massive clearcuts in northern Ontario and Alberta and has filled warehouses full of disposable tissue products made of ancient forests.

[Kleercut.net] Blog, Story | KLEERCUT . NET: September 19th, Toronto Kleercut activists visited the University of Toronto campus to spread the word of how Kimberly-Clark continues to destroy Canada’s Boreal forest. The enthusiastic activists dressed up as trees, held a banner, handed out leaflets and spoke to students who were interested in hearing more about the Boreal forest and the campaign against Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex tissue products.

Forests.orghttp://forests.org [Forests.org] 5/7/2005 -- Greenpeace Forest Crimes Unit surrounds Kimberly-Clark ...: MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 5 /CNW Telbec/ - Greenpeace's Forest Crimes Unit today set up a Forest Crime Scene at Kimberly-Clark's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. Kimberly-Clark, the world's largest manufacturer of tissue products and maker of the world famous Kleenex brand, is guilty of crimes against ancient forests, for making disposable products out of clearcut ancient forests including Canada's Boreal forest.

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