Mr. Thomas Falk, CEO
Kimberly-Clark
351 Phelps Drive
Irving, TX 75038

RE: Time to stop liquidating ancient forests to make disposable tissue products!

Dear Mr. Falk,

Since Kimberly-Clark supplies many of the tissue products available at local grocery stores, it is extremely important that you hear directly from consumers like me. I am disturbed that Kimberly-Clark clearcuts ancient forests to create disposable tissue products like Kleenex brand facial tissue and toilet paper.

I am opposed to the destruction of ancient forests such as the Canadian boreal forest--particularly when that destruction is for the production of toilet paper and facial tissues. A forest that has taken 10,000 years to evolve should not be clearcut to create throwaway products. I urge that Kimberly-Clark significantly increase the amount of post-consumer recycled fiber used in its tissue paper products. I also urge your company to make a firm public commitment to protect and not to destroy the Earth's ancient and endangered forests.

Kimberly-Clark is one of the leading tissue product manufacturers in the world, and yet your products only contain approximately 19% post-consumer recycled content. And most of the Kimberly-Clark products that I see in grocery stores including Kleenex brand facial tissue do not have any recycled content at all!

Canada's boreal forest is a treasure of global significance and its health is critical to the survival of both people and wildlife. A commitment from Kimberly-Clark to protect, rather than destroy, this forest and other ancient forests is long overdue. I will be reconsidering purchasing your products until you make such a commitment.

Please act today to protect ancient and endangered forests by drastically increasing the post-consumer recycled content in Kimberly-Clark products--especially in brands such as Kleenex that I see every day on store shelves.