How Green Can Bottled Water Really Get?
Fiji Water just announced a plan to go carbon neutral. While it doesn't actually eliminate the environmental problems of production and transportation, it does help mitigate some of them. Fiji Waters plans to reduce packaging, install a windmill on its plant in Fiji, use more ships and less trucks to transport the product and increase the amount of alternative fuels used in its trucking fleet. Plus, the company will purchase carbon offsets to protect the 500,000-acre Sovi Basin – the largest lowland rainforest in Fiji.
Nestle Waters also recently made changes to its bottled water products by introducing a new bottle that uses 30 percent less plastic.
None of these changes make the industry completely clean and green, but at least the business is recognizing that it must do something to better the environment – even if it's just one small step at a time.
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Doesn't matter what the bottle water companies do it needs to stop. The bottling of water and trucking it all over the place is ridiculous and only creates pollution. Every step of the way creates greenhouse gasses, wise up people! Get a point of use water filter and do your part to reduce global warming!
i agree with the above poster. While the industry going green is a positive move, it is still infinitely better for us to stop drinking bottled water. Corporate Accountability International has been running the Think Outside The Bottle pledge and I'd encourage everyone to check out the website and sign the pledge.
You both make great points. Thanks for commenting. Until the majority of people really stop using bottled water, though, I will praise the business for going as green as possible. Perhaps messages like yours will encourage more folks to ditch the bottles.