Post subject: In order to make one bottle of Fiji Brand water
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:49 am
Spaceman
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
it takes 26 litres.
"In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji water consumed 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds)."
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
Sunny wrote:
:lol: treehugger.com?
yeah, i almost didn't post that link because of the negative connotations i knew it would cause. i found this on digg, they're just a website who were reporting it because obviously they have a special interest in it. the original source was the other link i posted, but the treehugger article summarised it so it was a little less confusing.
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Everything about fiji water is morally devoid. Even their magazine ads. Anyone that has anything to do with that company, employee or consumer, can go fuck themselves.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Quote:
Secretary Powell presents an Award for Corporate Excellence to David H. Gilmour [remarks], Founder and Chairman, FIJI Water.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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corduroy11 wrote:
Everything about fiji water is morally devoid. Even their magazine ads. Anyone that has anything to do with that company, employee or consumer, can go fuck themselves.
Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:54 am Posts: 7189 Location: CA
I tend to drink more bottled water at school (usually Kirkland brand stuff) because the tap water around here isn't all that hot. Theoretically the S.F. Bay Area has some of the best tap water in the country with our delicious Hetch Hetchy water.
Ok, maybe my area doesn't actually get Hetch Hetchy water, but we get equally good Sierra water.
Post subject: Re: In order to make one bottle of Fiji Brand water
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:25 pm
Force of Nature
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:45 pm Posts: 757 Location: living, laughing, and loving...
vacatetheword wrote:
it takes 26 litres.
"In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji water consumed 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds)."
Post subject: Re: In order to make one bottle of Fiji Brand water
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 pm
Spaceman
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
my2hands wrote:
vacatetheword wrote:
it takes 26 litres.
"In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji water consumed 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds)."
how about that chinese made computer your typing on?
just playing devils advocate
i'm not going to use this computer once and then throw it away.
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Don't have the exact wording in front of me, but several weeks ago I was reading something hilarious about a Fiji ad campaing that said something along the lines of "Fiji: Not Bottled in Cleveland". Cleveland gets pissed, the mayor commissions a study and finds that Cleveland city tap water has 0 parts per million (maybe billion, whatever it was) of arsenic, which Fiji had 6 ppm.
Pretty solid rebuttal. And yeah, bottled water is retarded. Such a waste...
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