Look Out for the Green Patrol at Proctor Creek Cleanup, Saturday, April 17th 9:00 am - 12 noon, Atlanta

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Apr 16, 2010, 11:30 ET

ATLANTA, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

WHO/WHAT: To support environmental projects across the country, Kimberly-Clark Professional has launched the Green Patrol, a program that will bring employees and other volunteers to communities throughout the United States to help plant trees, aid in cleanup and recycling projects and other environmental efforts. The Green Patrol's first projects will be in Atlanta and Philadelphia.

WHEN: More than 70 Kimberly-Clark employees will be volunteering for a Green Patrol project to clean up the Proctor Creek, one of the most environmentally impaired creeks in Metro Atlanta. The effort is being undertaken as part of EarthShare of Georgia's Corporate Green Day Challenge, the first of three annual Earth Day events.

WHERE: Proctor Creek

Saturday, April 17^th

9:00 am – 12 noon

Center Hill Park, Atlanta, Ga. 30318

(Located off Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy, 3 miles west of Joseph E. Lowery Blvd; yellow UCR sign will be at entrance.)

WHY: In 2009, Kimberly-Clark Professional launched Reduce Today, Respect Tomorrow, a program that represents the Kimberly-Clark Professional philosophy of reducing the use of natural resources throughout the life cycle of its projects. This big-picture approach helps the company design products to eliminate waste from the start. Products created with source-reduction in mind are designed in such a way that users actually consume less, either through improved performance, more reliable dispensing methods, or both. If less is consumed in the first place, it often means there is less packaging waste, which further reduces the amount of waste to recycle, or send to landfill.

Kimberly-Clark Professional is one of the largest manufacturers of washroom products in the world, serving commercial facilities such as office buildings, hotels, schools, healthcare facilities, manufacturing plants and other public buildings. For more information, visit www.kcpreducetoday.com/us.

About EarthShare of Georgia

EarthShare of Georgia is working for the day when our air, land and water are clean abundant and healthy. EarthShare of Georgia is a non-profit that raises funds for more than 60 environmental organizations dedicated to conserving and protecting our air, land and water. For more information, visit www.earthsharega.org.

About Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (UCR)

Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (UCR) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group whose mission is to protect and preserve the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed, for the people, fish, and wildlife that depend upon it. Learn more at www.chattahoochee.org .

SOURCE Kimberly-Clark Professional