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A Blockade to End Kleercuts
greenpeace usa mai 06
For
more than a year, we’ve been pressuring Kimberly-Clark – the maker of
Kleenex – to stop destroying ancient forests. We’ve encouraged more
than 26,000 of our supporters to contact the tissue giant, and ask for
more recycled content in its products. But Kimberly-Clark has ignored
our pleas for too long. Now, it’s time to do what we do best: a
blockade at the company’s manufacturing plant.At dawn today, our
activists locked down the plant in Ontario, Canada. We’re stopping all
shipments of materials going into and out of the factory via train and
truck. The only things coming out of that building are Kimberly-Clark
employees. The protest is sending a clear message to the Kimberly-Clark
shareholders that are participating in their annual meeting in Irving
Texas. Two of our activists are attending the meeting and advocating
for a sustainable forestry resolution which will be voted on
today.Switching to recycled fiber is not just the right thing to do,
it’s what customers want. A recent Leger Marketing poll shows that 84
percent of Americans and 86 percent of Canadian consumers are likely to
switch to recycled tissue products to prevent harm to forests, and are
even willing to pay more to do so. Just yesterday, we received word
from American University that it will no longer use Kimberly-Clark
products until the company changes its ways. Willy Suter, Director of
Facilities Management, pointed out that the University practices what
it preaches.
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