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Fiji Water: Artesian Water or Environmental Nightmare?

                  Fiji’s Environmental Contribution

                 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. A 1 liter bottle of FIJI Water contaminates 6.74 liters
                 of water to stretch-blow mold the plastic, burns fossil fuel to transport plastics
                 from
from China and full bottles to the U.S., and produces 0.25 kg of greenhouse emissions.

250g of CO2 are released for each bottle of FIJI Water imported to the United States. This includes
93g for manufacturing a bottle in China, 4g for transporting an empty bottle to Fiji, and 153g for
shipping a full bottle to the United States. Fiji Water’s total carbon footprint, a measure of the
exclusive global amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted over the full
life cycle of a product or service, was 85,396 tonnes CO2eq in the base year 2006 – 2007 for all
bottles produced. 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.“

Additional Environmental Impact Created By Fiji Water

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. The boxes of bottles are then trucked from the bottling plant to a sea cargo
terminal in Fiji, then shipped across the ocean on fossil-fuel-powered freighters to the US Pacific
coast. The fuel these ships use produces exhaust gases – Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Sulphur Oxides
(SOx), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Particulate Matter (PM) which
contribute to global warming and other air quality issues. Unregulated oil and bilge water
discharges affect the sea and marine life. So do leakage and waste fluids from ship machinery.
Noise and vibration from vessels impact marine mammals. Grease on wires washed off during
mooring operations gets into the sea. Chemicals used for deck cleaning or surface preparation
prior to painting can be washed overboard. Aquatic marine organisms and pathogens attached to
hulls are spread around the world, threatening indigenous species.

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.

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. When we’re done
drinking our water, over 85 percent of these bottles wind up in landfills (where they take up to 1,000
years to degrade) and incinerators—the latter of which can release a potpourri of deadly toxics into
the environment. Recycling plastic bottles is still often cost-prohibitive.

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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