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K-C unveils Sustainability 2022 program annual report

11 Jul '17

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) Corporation has published its annual report on Sustainability 2022 program, providing the first update on the company’s global progress toward its sustainability goals. Sustainability 2022 is the company’s framework to address social and environmental challenges with programs designed to create social, environmental, and business value.

In its first year, Kimberly-Clark surpassed three of its five sustainability targets, and is on track to meet or exceed all of its goals by 2022.

According to the reports, working with customers, consumers and suppliers, programs including Toilets Change Lives, No Baby Unhugged and The Period Project, worked to improve the well-being of more than two million people in need in 2016 through social and community investments that increased access to sanitation, helped children thrive and empowered women and girls.

K-C sourced 89 per cent of the fibre used in its tissue products from environmentally-preferred sources. The company also strengthened its partnership with the Forest Stewardship Council to engage consumers in protecting forests.

The company has expanded its waste and recycling programs to include challenges of waste at both ends of the supply chain. In 2016, they diverted 95 per cent of manufacturing waste from landfills, and diverted more than 5,000 metric tons of post-consumer waste through partnership programs around the world, according to reports.

Kimberly-Clark’s efforts to drive innovation in energy management has helped achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 16.8 per cent over a 2005 baseline, which includes direct and indirect energy sources.

In 2016, the company introduced new imperatives for occupational safety, reinforced environmental compliance capabilities, and completed a total of 205 social compliance audits of customer, supplier and Kimberly-Clark workplaces. In addition, they invested in the development of solutions that support mills and communities in water-stressed regions.

Kimberly-Clark’s 2016 global sustainability report details the company’s strategies and key performance indicators against its goals for 2022. The report is organised and presented in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Standards, Core level. (GK)

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