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Native Forest logging can only exist as long as there is a demand for products made from the trees taken from these forests.

Kimberly Clark Australia - Kleenex

Kimberly Clark Australia has a licence to take up to 44,000 tonnes of hardwood woodchips from the Otway State forest . This represents about 40% of all the forest destroyed by clearfell logging in the Otways each year. Kimberly Clark Australia requires the hardwood woodchips to manufacture tissue paper at the Kimberly Clark Australia pulp mills in Millicent, South Australia (near Mt Gambier, Sth. Australia).

Clearfell logging to supply Kimberly Clark Australia woodchips is having a devastating effect on the Otway forests and potential economic growth in the region.

1. The tourism potential of the Otways is being deminished by clearfell logging. The Otway regional economy is already heavily dependent on tourism . There is great scope for further sustainable development of tourist opportunities that would benefit both local and urban communities.
For instance, over 170,000 tourists go to see cool temperate rainforest at Mait's Rest in the Otway National Park each year . Thirty-three thousand international tourists drive the great ocean road each year. These numbers are growing. A report to the Surf Coast Shire confirms that the tourists contribute $98 million per year to the Otway local economy (Colac Herald 22/11/1996)
2. Clearfell logging is exacerbating and spreading Myrtle Wilt, a disease that is killing off the remaining stands of cool temperate rainforest throughout the Otways. Myrtle wilt can be seen on the trees at Mait's Rest.
3. Clearfell logging and dirt covered access roads are polluting rivers and creeks with mud and silt, killing endangered fish such as the galaxis and grayling. These fish require clear clean water for spawning.
4. The habitat of the Tiger Quoll, Powerful Owl and Otway Black Snail is slowly being diminished by clearfell logging. All these species including the Galaxis and Grayling are listed as vulnerable and endangered.

Kleenex uses 10,000's of tonnes of Woodchips per year from the forests of the Otways and the Victorian Central Highlands to be made into their paper based products. Avoid Kleenex products and choose alternatives. Write Kleenex a letter stating how you feel about the companies and it sourcing its chips from the native forests of the Otways.

These logs are being chipped in South Australia at Kleenex

Products To Avoid

As yet there is no Australian office paper made from100% Post Consumer waste paper.

REFUSE TO USE KLEENEX TISSUES

Send a message to Kimberly Clark Australia. Destroying Native Forest for profit is unacceptable.

RING 1 800 028 334.

REFUSE TO USE KLEENEX TISSUES.

ALTERNATIVE TO KLEENEX TOILET PAPER

For Toilet Paper made of 100 % post consumer waste paper these include :

• SAFE Paper Converting Company. Pty. Ltd.
• SOFTEX COSCO Holdings. Pty Ltd.
• NATURALE ABC Tissue Products Pty. Ltd.
• TREE FREE Morepack Merchandising
• NATURE SOFT Austissue (Western Australia)

Cosco use recycled office waste. Does your office allow the contract cleaners to choose Kleenex? Cosco can be supplied at the same rate if your management is able to direct the cleaners to make a more environmentally sustainable choice; ask them.

NOTE: Avoid any products manufactured by CARTER HOLT HARVEY. Carter Holt Harvey also use native forest to make tissue paper. Their Brand Name include:

• Sorbent
• Petal
• Scotties
• Chiffon
• EARTH CARE (Warning: this is packaged similar to SAFE)

ALTERNATIVES TO KLEENEX FACIAL TISSUES

WHITE PAPER TOWEL

Paper towel under the brand name SAFE (Manufacturer Paper Converting Company) is made from 100% recycled office paper .