{"id":10275,"date":"2020-07-09T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","slug":"kimberly-clark-launches-sustainability-strategy-featuring-recyclable-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/09\/kimberly-clark-launches-sustainability-strategy-featuring-recyclable-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly-Clark Launches Sustainability Strategy Featuring Recyclable Packs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The maker of Andrex, Kleenex and Huggies said its plans to put sustainability at the core of its agenda in the UK, Europe and Africa, especially in the current Covid-19 context as one of the largest manufacturers of toilet rolls, facial tissues and other personal care products in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimberly-Clark estimates that a quarter of the world\u2019s population uses a K-C product every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The personal care giant said this strategy will see a 50% reduction in its carbon footprint, forest footprint, water footprint, and use of virgin fossil-fuel based plastics within the next 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This builds on the company\u2019s previous leadership in manufacturing waste diversion to tackle single-use plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As members of the UK\u2019s Plastic Pact, Kimberly-Clark has been working with industry partners, NGOs and the government to further support innovation in waste collection and circular systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingnews.co.uk\/news\/markets\/personal-care\/kimberly-clark-introduces-ambitious-sustainability-strategy-featuring-recyclable-packaging-08-07-2020\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maker of Andrex, Kleenex and Huggies said its plans to put sustainability at the core of its agenda in the UK, Europe and Africa, especially in the current Covid-19&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}