Student Network Victories Announced at Kimberly Clark's Annual Shareholder Meeting!

Thanks to you, the Greenpeace Student Network, we were able to give Kimberly-Clark executives examples of the KC-contract cancellations, actions, and resolutions taking place on campuses all over the country. Recent shakeups of the Student Network include:

The University of Vermont (UVM) Student Government Association passed a resolution calling on university administrators to remove Kimberly-Clark products and transition to a paper company that “practices sustainable harvesting and manufacturing of paper products.”

University of California, Berkeley (Cal) students passed an Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) resolution stating, “we do not support the selling of Kimberly-Clark products in the ASUC Student Store, and direct(ing) the ASUC President to write a letter to Kimberly-Clark condemning their forest practices.” Kleenex products were simultaneously phased out of the Cal Student Store.

University of Central Florida (UCF) sent a letter to Kimberly-Clark announcing the removal of company products on UCF's eleven regional campuses and the reduction of their use on the main campus. The university is committed to using only Green Seal Certified products in new buildings on the main campus with goals to transition older buildings as well.

Northern Arizona University (NAU), due to the efforts of the NAU Society of Environmental Communicators over the past two years, completely phased out Kimberly-Clark products on campus. NAU is now purchasing toilet tissue products with only 100% recycled content and non-chlorine bleaching.

The Kleercut team also used the Kimberly-Clark's shareholder meeting as the perfect setting to release a new report, "Cut and Run: Kimberly-Clark's legacy of environmental devastation and social conflict in the Kenogami Forest." Please click here to read the report.

Click "Read more" below to find out about how to get involved.

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Kleenex = Kleercut

Kimberly-Clark clearcuts ancient forests to make Kleenex and other paper products we use once and throw away. Join the Kleercut Campaign next year as we attempt to answer the age-old question: How many schools refusing to buy Kimberly-Clark products will it take to turn this company’s environmentally egregious behavior around? Read more to find out about the schools boycotting Kimberly-Clark products and find out how your school can get involved.