Nearly 90 percent of our 69 tissue manufacturing facilities have already met our stringent wastewater standards, and the remainder will be in compliance by the end of 2001. By 2005, we expect to reduce our amount of water use by at least 25 percent. We're conserving energy around the world. Over the past five years we've reduced energy use by at least 10 percent per unit of output at K-C manufacturing facilities. As a result, we're conserving the fuels used to generate power and substantially lowering emissions.
Energy conservation makes good business sense, too.
Cutting energy use on a company-wide basis by another 10 percent. We've taken recycling to heart. In Loudon, Tennessee, our plant burns some of its manufacturing waste with wood waste from the furniture industry to generate cost-efficient energy. K-C's nonwovens mills send polypropylene waste to a company that recycles it into part of the packaging used for Huggies diapers. Recycling initiatives like these are helping K-C divert 80 percent of our manufacturing solid waste from landfills.