Kimberly-Clark

FY2025 net sales

$16.447BYear ended December 31, 2025

TRI facility leads

52024 U.S. match

Managed listed chemicals

658K lb2024 U.S. listed-chemical data

Products out

3 familiesPublicly described

Top TRI chemical

Nitrate compounds (water-dissociable)By managed weight

Revenue basis: This page uses Kimberly-Clark's reported FY2025 net sales of $16.447B (year ended December 31, 2025), per its 10-K and year-end results release. An SEC XBRL value of $4.080B for the period ending December 31, 2025 is about one quarter of that figure ($16.447B ÷ 4 ≈ $4.11B), so it is read as a single-quarter value and is not used as annual revenue. Open source →

Public evidence, arranged around the physical system rather than the corporate org chart.

01 · MATERIALS IN

Feedstock & input family

Not publicly disclosed at parent level in this source set. Directional sector family only: packaging, fiber, aluminum, polymers, ingredients, personal

02 · MAKE

Personal Care

Huggies, Kotex, and Depend, diapers, feminine care, and adult incontinence products built on superabsorbent-polymer and nonwoven fiber core

03 · PRODUCTS OUT

3 public product families

Huggies / Kotex / Depend, Kleenex / Scott / Cottonelle, and 1 more described lines.

04 · WASTE OUT

Listed-chemical streams

658K lb managed in 2024 TRI records across 5 matched facility leads.

What is public now

Buyer-side sector Consumer, food & retail

Waste-side sector Food, consumer, pulp & packaging

Segments Personal Care; Consumer Tissue; K-C Professional

Public plant signal 5 TRI facility leads define the public operating footprint

Segment breakdown

Personal Care Huggies, Kotex, and Depend, diapers, feminine care, and adult incontinence products built on superabsorbent-polymer and nonwoven fiber cores.

Consumer Tissue Kleenex, Scott, and Cottonelle tissue and towel products, manufactured at cellulose-fiber mills including Owensboro, KY and Loudon, TN.

K-C Professional Commercial washroom, wiping and PPE products. Kimberly-Clark's 2018 RightCycle release lists qualifying nitrile gloves, single-use apparel and polypropylene wipers; it does not establish acceptance of tissue-mill trim. Program source

Regulatory watchlist

State Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (multiple U.S. states)

EU Single-Use Plastics Directive relevance for wet wipes

PFAS restrictions in food-contact and personal-care packaging

EPA Clean Water Act effluent guidelines for pulp and tissue mills

Certification families to check

Fiber sourcing (2025): 95% of tissue fiber from environmentally preferred sources; FSC-certified virgin wood fiber was 77% of total virgin-fiber purchases.

ISO 14001

Evidence boundary: Kimberly-Clark describes a K-C Professional RightCycle program, including eligible nitrile gloves, single-use apparel and polypropylene wipers. The public material reviewed here does not show that the program accepts nonwoven or superabsorbent-polymer trim from the three named facility leads, nor does it establish that any such material is available for recovery. Program source

Publicly described product families and segments define Kimberly-Clark's outward material flow.

Huggies / Kotex / Depend

Diaper, feminine-care, and incontinence products built on superabsorbent polymer and nonwoven fiber.

Segment: Personal Care

Kleenex / Scott / Cottonelle

Tissue and towel products manufactured at fiber mills including Owensboro, KY and Loudon, TN, two of the three named TRI leads.

Segment: Consumer Tissue

K-C Professional wipers & PPE

Commercial nonwoven wiping and protective-equipment products, the direct input stream to the RightCycle recycling program.

Segment: K-C Professional

Product and application signal

The cited product and segment pages identify product families and applications. This brief does not include grade- or SKU-level technical, safety, packaging, or certification records.

Directional material-family signal, matched against the company's public segment structure and TRI-listed chemical evidence.

Financial scale context

$16.447B FY2025 net sales (year ended December 31, 2025) provides scale context for sourcing and waste opportunities. It is not a materials-spend measure.

Material transition focus

TRI-listed chemical stream is public; exact material mapping still requires facility and chemical review. Directional residual forms only: organic residuals, fiber sludge, wastewater residuals, trim, off-spec product, and packaging.

Public circularity, recycling, and take-back signals connect Kimberly-Clark's product system to a packaging or materials transition pathway.

RightCycle Program

Kimberly-Clark's 2018 release says RightCycle had diverted more than 300 tons cumulatively since its 2011 launch. It lists qualifying nitrile gloves, single-use apparel and polypropylene wipers, subject to contamination exclusions. This historical milestone is not current annual throughput or proof of tissue-mill trim acceptance. Program source

Fiber sourcing

Kimberly-Clark's 2025 report says 95% of tissue fiber came from environmentally preferred sources, a category that includes FSC-certified virgin fiber, recycled fiber and sustainable alternative non-wood fiber. Separately, FSC-certified virgin wood fiber represented 77% of total virgin-fiber purchases. These are sourcing measures, not the share of finished products with FSC certification. 2025 Sustainability Report

2030 Ambition, Natural Forest Free

Kimberly-Clark's 2025 report says it reached 95% of tissue fiber from environmentally preferred sources, above its 90% 2025 milestone. Its 2030 Natural Forest Free ambition is a separate longer-term commitment.

Wastewater nitrate signal

Nitrate compounds, the TRI-reported top chemical at all three named mills, are a common effluent-treatment byproduct at pulp and tissue operations, consistent with the Clean Water Act effluent-guideline framework these mills operate under.

Packaging & circularity opportunities

Extend RightCycle to mill trim

Apply K-C Professional's own proven nonwoven/PPE diversion model to nonwoven and superabsorbent-polymer trim generated at Owensboro, Loudon, and Jenks.

Fiber-certificate scope verification

Kimberly-Clark's 2025 report separately reports that 95% of tissue fiber came from environmentally preferred sources and FSC-certified virgin wood fiber represented 77% of total virgin-fiber purchases. These are different sourcing measures, not a finished-product FSC certification rate. 2025 report source

The EPA 2024 Basic Data File returns six forms across five TRI facility IDs for the exact standard-parent-name match KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP. These are listed-chemical records, not a complete waste-flow inventory or verified current site-ownership list. EPA TRI source and method

657,963 lb of on-site releases in six matched 2024 TRI forms

Off-site recycling

0 lb recorded

Off-site energy recovery

0 lb recorded

Off-site treatment

0 lb recorded

Total transfer

0 lb recorded

Scope: The values describe listed-chemical reporting in the six returned forms. They do not describe total company waste, establish current facility ownership or operations, or prove a recoverable material stream. EPA TRI source and method

Named public facility leads

Kimberly-Clark Corp Owensboro Operations · Owensboro, KY 370,509 lb

Kimberly-Clark Corp Loudon Mill · Loudon, TN 191,400 lb

Kimberly-Clark Corp · Jenks, OK 52,037 lb

What determines a viable recovery route: validate legal owner, operator, process, stream identity, assay, contamination, current disposition, permit fit, receiving specification, and delivered economics.

Potential receiving markets

RightCycle-style specialty recyclers

Kimberly-Clark's 2018 release describes RightCycle for qualifying nitrile gloves, single-use apparel and polypropylene wipers, subject to contamination exclusions. It does not establish that the program accepts nonwoven or superabsorbent-polymer trim from the Owensboro, Loudon or Jenks tissue mills. Program source

Recycled-fiber mills

A standing buyer class for tissue-mill trim and off-spec fiber, subject to source separation and chain-of-custody evidence.

Composters

Candidate receivers for organic residuals from fiber processing, subject to contamination and moisture limits.

Packaging converters

Downstream buyers for any qualified recycled-content packaging film or fiber board.

Highest-leverage public opportunities

These opportunity hypotheses connect Kimberly-Clark's public product, TRI, and circularity-program signals to specific material-transition pathways.

Extend RightCycle to consumer-tissue mills

K-C Professional describes its RightCycle program, but the reviewed sources do not establish that its intake specifications cover nonwoven or superabsorbent-polymer trim from these named tissue mills. No site-level stream volume or current receiving route is verified here. Program source

• Trim-stream volume by mill
• RightCycle intake spec
• Program extension sign-off

FSC certificate-scope verification

The 2025 report's 95% tissue-fiber measure and 77% virgin-fiber purchase measure have different denominators; neither is a product-level FSC-certification rate. Source

• Certificate number and holder
• Mill-level scope
• Expiry and registry check

TRI reporting scope

In the six exact-parent 2024 forms, on-site releases total 657,962.71 lb; off-site recycling, energy recovery, treatment and total transfer each record 0 lb. These listed-chemical records are not a complete waste-flow or current-ownership inventory. EPA TRI source and method

• Facility-level TRI pull
• Category reconciliation
• Corrected public disclosure

Evidence boundary

Public disclosures describe K-C Professional's RightCycle program and company-wide fiber-sourcing measures. They do not establish that the three facility leads generate a particular trim stream, that such material is accepted by RightCycle, or that it is available for recovery. The 2025 fiber percentages are company-level sourcing measures, not product- or mill-specific certifications. Fiber source · Program source

This brief separates the disclosed record from the evidence still needed. Bring the relevant specification, facility or product-family evidence into the review.