Choosing the Right CBSE School A Comprehensive Guide for Parents
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1. Bottled Water and The Environment Outcomes of Lecture: You are consumers so you make decisions with your money. Bottled water makes a lot of money for big business. Oil and Water Do Mix!! The Hydrocarbon Footprint…. Manufacturing of plastic bottles uses lots of oil and water. Bottled water uses oil and water to distribute, recycle or throw away.
5. Bottled Water is Big Business REVENUES (2007) $10 to $15 Billion in US $47.5 to $100 Billion Worldwide (Beverage Marketing Corp. World Water Forum 2006; 2007) In 2002, bottled water corporations spent $93.8 million for advertising. (Boston Globe, September 25, 2005)
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9. Who Dominates Market In Oregon? Nestle = 29% Crystal Geyser (currently with Dannon)= 20% Pepsi = 20% Coca-Cola = 18% Others = EartH 2 0 and other smaller bottlers who are our neighbors = 6%
10. Who Gets Their Bottled Water From Oregon Sources? Wal-Mart Brand of Bottled Water is from an artesian well in Cove, Oregon. Where is Cove? It is about 10 miles east of LaGrande. Photo courtesy of Gail Achterman Director, Institute for Natural Resources
22. Bottled Water Environmental Problems “ For every one million bottles of water that are manufactured and shipped to consumers, 18.2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions are pumped into the air.” - The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook by David de Rothschild “ We're moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks in the United States alone.” “ That's a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers delivering water.” - Message in a bottle by Chris Fishman for fast company.com (2007) “ A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometer. Its production generated up to 600 times more CO2 than tap water.” - http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23238015-1248,00.html#
23. Bottled Water Environmental Problems Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. Running the Numbers An American Self-Portrait - chris jordan, Seattle, 2007