Procter & Gamble Co. — Ethics Grade C

Procter & Gamble Co. receives an overall ethics grade of C (47/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Consumer Goods. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 55
• privacy: 70
• consumer: 45
• environment: 25
• humanRights: 55

Documented incidents (3)

• Deforestation for tissue products (high, 2021) — NRDC report gave Charmin an F grade for sourcing virgin pulp from Canada's boreal forest, a critical carbon sink.
• Plastic packaging footprint (high, 2022) — Among top plastic polluters globally. Produces 750,000+ tonnes of virgin plastic packaging annually.
• Animal testing practices (medium, 2020) — Continues animal testing for some products despite availability of alternatives, affecting hundreds of thousands of animals annually.

Documented good deeds

• Children's Safe Drinking Water program — Provided 19 billion liters of clean drinking water to communities in need through P&G Purifier packets.

Ethical alternatives

• Who Gives A Crap — 100% recycled or bamboo toilet paper. Donates 50% of profits to build toilets in developing nations.
• Blueland — Refillable cleaning products that eliminate single-use plastic bottles entirely.