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Post by Mel Mel on Mar 18, 2007 17:08:02 GMT
Aspen Skiing Co. is removing all Kimberly-Clark products from its resorts, hotels and restaurants because of Kimberly-Clark's sustainable forestry practices, the company said in a letter to Greenpeace.
In the letter, the company said it was switching to other paper tissue suppliers, "whose operations are more environmentally sound."
Aspen is among more than 700 businesses that have pledged not to use Irving-based personal products maker Kimberly-Clark's products, Greenpeace says.
"Businesses and the public alike are making the right decision to use products from companies that are not destroying our last remaining forests," said Greenpeace spokeswoman Ginger Cassady in a prepared statement.
Greenpeace contends that all of the Kleenex brand products sold in North America are made from 100 percent virgin tree fiber, much of it from unsustainably managed forests in Ontario and Alberta, Canada. ...continued... dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/03/05/daily38.html?jst=b_ln_hl
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