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Fiji_Water: An Environmental Nightmare - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09 - No Cached
  • sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09
     
    From the environmental impact, you might as well be swigging down a pint of oil! All of a sudden that bottle of refreshing Fiji Water doesn't sound so refreshing!
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  • sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09
     
    It is already clear that the manufacturing process and product distribution is energy-intensive and produces toxic byproducts, but there is another major environmental impact.
  • sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09
     
    Once they arrive in the United States, they're loaded onto trains and trucks, all powered by fossil fuels, and eventually warehoused, prodded with forklifts, loaded onto other trucks, shipped to other warehouses and eventually delivered to your local convenience store or drink machine.
  • sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09
     
    Bringing these bottles of water here from the other side of the earth involves packing them into cardboard boxes. In the South Pacific this often means rainforest cardboard, produced from rainforest destruction.
  • sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09
     
    Seventy-two percent of those emissions came from manufacturing raw materials, bottling and ocean freight. Overall, the average energy cost to make the plastic, fill the bottle, transport it to market and then deal with the waste would be "like filling up a quarter of every bottle with oil."
  • sandy ingram on 15 Feb 09
     
    Fiji Water has been criticized for the environmental costs embedded in each bottle. The production plant runs on diesel fuel, 24 hours a day. The high-grade plastic used to make the bottles is transported from China to Fiji, and then (full of water) to the United States.
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