Student members of the University of Vermont Forest Crimes Unit rallied on campus as part of the Kleercut Campaign: a campaign focused on getting the university to join a host of other schools in cutting ties with Kimberly-Clark, the national distributor of Scott and Kleenex tissue products. Kimberly-Clark products are distributed throughout UVM’s campus, and have become targets for the Forest Crimes Unit because they contain minimal to no post-consumer recycled content. In fact, Kimberly-Clark uses paper cut from old-growth forests which are home to some of the most diverse and complex ecosystems in the world and are among the most efficient in turning carbon into oxygen.

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