Breaking News! Images reveal massive forest destruction for disposable tissues

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We've been campaigning for almost four years against Kimberly-Clark because the company is wiping away ancient forests for disposable tissue products like Kleenex and Cottonelle toilet paper. Now we can show you the extent of what they're destroying, too.

Check out new footage of a massive wood stockpile discovered in Canada! The logs in these images represent an estimated 36 million board feet, the majority destined for a Kleenex box near you.

Kimberly-Clark's suppliers have destroyed more than two and a half million acres of ancient Boreal forest from Canada to make products that are used once and tossed away. This stockpile proves that these suppliers are now moving further north into pristine areas of old growth forest to keep pace with Kimberly-Clark's demand for logs.

But according to Kimberly-Clark, they use "leftovers," not trees:

"Much of [the] fiber from the Canadian Boreal forest comes to K-C in the form of wood pulp produced from sawdust and chips - or leftovers - of the lumber production process."

These images reveal the real truth. There are hundreds of thousands of trees from threatened caribou habitat sitting in this stockpile alone, the majority of which will be made into disposable tissues by Kimberly-Clark.

Kimberly-Clark uses old-growth trees for a lot of recognizable brands -- Scott and Kotex in addition to Cottonelle and Kleenex -- that reach 1 in 4 households worldwide. What we're asking the company is simple: Just use recycled content and wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in your products. Please tell Kimberly Clark to stop wiping away ancient forests. Period.

Sincerely,

Lindsey Allen
Forest Campaigner