P&G Faces Reckoning Over Charmin, Bounty Supply Chain
Sustainability | Reuters | August 22, 2022
Procter & Gamble Co. has vowed to take the necessary steps to reduce potential harm to forests from its purchases of wood pulp for toilet paper and other consumer goods. The pledge comes amid pressure from environmentalists and investors to make such changes. P&G's chief aim will be to end buying pulp, a key ingredient in its popular Charmin toilet paper, from certain forests in Canada and develop a plan to reduce purchases of the raw material from other swaths of woodland. P&G has faced stepped-up scrutiny partly because it lags competitors like Kimberly Clark Corp. and Unilever PLC in using recycled paper and fibers in toilet paper and other staples. P&G notes that its peers that make premium toilet paper all exclusively use virgin wood pulp, too.
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