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Kimberly-Clark Corporation

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Kimberly-Clark manufactures products for the consumer and B2B markets enhancing people’s health, hygiene and well-being.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament) and EPIA SolarPower Europe and

1 Jul 2025 · Live PPA negotiation: understanding the benefits and potential of accelerating PPAs in Europe

Response to Waste Framework review to reduce waste and the environmental impact of waste management

16 Oct 2023

Kimberly-Clark produces Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for professional use, which encompasses protective apparel, gloves of different compositions and protective eyewear. Many of these products are single use and used, for example, in clean room environments and/or to protect workers from harmful and hazardous substances used in an industrial environment. While we endorse the European Commissions stated goals for this proposal, we also believe that the use and circularity challenges of single-use PPE used in labs, clean rooms and industrial environments are very different from fast fashion, the main target of this proposal. Indeed, we run our own Right Cycle program through which we collected non-contaminated PPE and other products from our customers facilities and ensure they are recycled. The current European Commission proposal exempts some PPE products but not all, without any rationale given for this approach. Kimberly-Clark calls for all PPE products to be exempt from the new EPR requirements on textiles in the revised EU Waste Framework Directive, since such products are used in an industrial or commercial environment and will not function well in the EPR schemes that will emerge from this legislation as the volumes, materials used and distribution channels are very different; they often need to be single use; and they often become contaminated and must be incinerated. For further information, please consult the document in the Annex.
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Response to Review of the requirements for packaging and feasibility of measures to prevent packaging waste

24 Apr 2023

Kimberly-Clark is a global leader in the development and production of Absorbent Hygiene Products (AHPs), including baby nappies, period products, adult diapers, and tissue paper for private and professional use. As a user of packaging for our products, we fully support the PPWR proposals goal to create a level playing field across the EU for packaging, whilst reducing overpackaging, increasing recycling rates and promoting re-use. Our recommendations for the new PPWR are attached.
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Response to Waste Framework review to reduce waste and the environmental impact of waste management

21 Feb 2022

Attached please find a paper containing the input of Kimberly-Clark to the European Commission Consultation on the Roadmap towards the planned revision of the Waste Framework Directive.
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Response to Policy framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

26 Oct 2021

Kimberly-Clark and its trusted brands, including Huggies®, Kleenex®, and Kotex®, are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries, and ¼ of the world’s population uses one of our products every day. We support people with their most essential needs by contributing to their personal hygiene, health, and dignity. Caring for the environment is core to our purpose of providing Better Care for a Better World, and we are working hard to fulfil several commitments to reduce our carbon, natural forest fibre, water and plastic footprints by 50% by 2030. These commitments are a critical part of our global ambition to improve the lives of one billion people in underserved communities around the globe by 2030, with the smallest environmental footprint. Our efforts to achieve these goals are driven by several innovation platforms focused on reducing the materials we use, using more recycled content, and ensuring our materials are recyclable and recycled. Biobased (BBP) and biodegradable and compostable plastics (BDCP) could play an important role in these efforts. The absorbent hygiene products we make, when used properly, become soiled with human waste. Using BBP and BDCP in our products so that they, together with the human waste they accumulate, could be recycled through organic recycling, would present a more cost and resource efficient approach to the management of post-consumer waste – compared to the cleaning and separating of component materials which, among other constraints, is water intensive. That is why we welcome the Commission’s recognition of the promise of BBP and BDCP innovation and your effort to establish a regulatory framework, which we believe can and should be built in a way to encourage such innovation. These materials, such as Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a natural, non-chemically modified polymer, hold great promise in the face of the dual challenges of carbon reduction and increasing circularity and recycling. We need clear definitions and standards that are rigorous but transparent and fair. With definitions and standards in place, we must be able to make clear, reasonable, and justifiable claims – otherwise it will not be possible to communicate clear and trustworthy information to consumers on the benefits of BBP and BDCP innovation. Clear definitions and standards are also paramount to a well-functioning internal market, including potential end-of-life markets for these materials. None of the potential concerns raised in your roadmap are insurmountable. They can be addressed through the development of a well-considered regulatory framework for BBP and BDCP that considers sourcing, labelling, use and recycling. We would welcome any opportunity to continue to share our views as policies are further considered and developed.
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