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Since the 1860s, Kimberly–Clark (K–C) has produced items–like disposable diapers, facial tissue, and paper towels–that help consumers improve their daily lives. It’s no wonder that this global company has turned its Paris, Texas, plant into a facility that improves the Texas environment through its sustainable use of natural resources, energy conservation, and waste reduction.

K–C currently is working towards goals set in its Vision 2010, which focuses on energy efficiency, water use, and elimination of landfill–destined waste. Kimberley–Clark demonstrates its environmental commitment by setting objectives and updating the Vision program with new targets every five years. Since embarking on Vision 2010, K–C has improved energy efficiency by more than 30 percent through operating an air management system, optimizing vacuum systems, improving efficiency of compressed air, upgrading its lighting, and installing variable–frequency drive motors.

Added to that, K–C recycles 99 percent of its manufacturing waste (more than 23,000 tons per year). Recycled items include off–spec diapers, training pants, cardboard, metal (including soda cans), pallets, drums, trim, stretch wrap, and poly dust.

Over the last 7 years, process water has been treated and used in the irrigation of the facility’s vast landscape or recycled back into the process–water stream, conserving roughly 24 million gallons.

Plant officials attribute the facility’s progress as a direct result of its employees, including machine operators, maintenance personnel, engineers, operations leaders, an environmental coordinator, facility management team, and the corporate environmental staff. These employees continually offer ideas that are better choices for the environment and put them into action, continuing the company’s goal of improving people’s lives every day and protecting our precious resources.