Who Owns Georgia-Pacific?

Georgia-Pacific frames stewardship around its Stewardship Framework and ESG reporting, emphasizing forestry management, recycling, and emissions reduction at mills. It sources fiber under certified sustainable forestry programs and runs one of the largest recycling businesses in the U.S.

Its environmental record is mixed, as with all pulp producers: mills are energy and water intensive, and the company has faced regulatory actions over emissions and water discharge at individual facilities over the years. It is not B Corp certified.

Georgia-Pacific has been named to Forbes' America's Best Large Employers list and receives recognition for military hiring and workplace safety programs. Its brands consistently rank among the most purchased household paper products in the United States.

The company's highest-profile legacy issue was asbestos liability from joint compound and gypsum products containing asbestos in past decades, which produced substantial litigation and required ongoing settlement reserves. Koch's ownership absorbed that liability in 2005.

The company has also faced environmental enforcement over mill emissions and wastewater at various facilities, standard for large pulp operations, and periodic criticism of Koch Industries' environmental and political record by extension. Dixie and Brawny have no notable product recalls on record.