Transporting mineral water: Human most stupid thing
March 26th, 2008 by xavier
In those times of general awareness sour ecological issues, how come
can human beings still consider making business by transporting water
from France for being drunk in Tokyo?
This is total non sense and for me this very example illustrate
perfectly the whole problem of our society.
We cannot continue letting big corporations do what they want. They
are not serving interests of our society anymore and had became with
the time parasites.
This is a world disease and we need to cure it.
Bonjour mon trésor,
C’est quoi le problème avec volvic ? Merci d’expliquer en français !
Bisou
Bouteille remplie avec de l’eau de France et vendue a Tokyo.
C’est un beau gaspi d’energie.
Un non sens total car on ne manque pas d’eau au Japon.
Other facts and figures (http://www.londonontap.org)
Bottled water has a higher carbon footprint per litre than tap water - more than 300 times the CO2 emissions per litre in the case of some imported brands.
2.7million tonnes of plastic are used to bottle water each year worldwide (EPI, 2006)
A quarter of all bottled water is produced for export markets (EPI,2006)
22million tonnes of bottled water are transferred each year from country to country (CIWEM)
Three out of four plastic bottles are still not recycled (WRAP 2007)
In 2006, 1.5million barrels of oil were used to make the 26billion litres of bottled water sold in the US. Enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year. (EPI, 2006)
Globally, nearly a quarter of bottled water crosses national borders to meet consumers (EPI, 2006)
One tonne of CO2 is equivalent in volume to 6 double decker buses.
According to the Container Recycling Institute, 90 percent of PET bottles end up in landfills, at a rate of 30 million a day, where they take 450 years to break down.
According to Dr. Gina Solomon, senior scientist at the NRDC (National Resources Defense Council), about 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) - a major greenhouse gas - are emitted during the transportation of bottled water from France, Italy, and Fiji to the U.S. (Quoted on www.greenerchoices.org)
Bottled water costs 500 times more than tap water (CC Water), the equivalent of paying £1,500 for a pint of beer or glass of wine.
Notes:
EPI (Earth Policy Institute)
CIWEM (Charted Institute of Water)
WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme)
This is of course also applicable to sodas…
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