Bottled water 'is immoral' ...
The Toowoomba City Council's catch phrase at one point was "if you don't like our recycled water plans, you can drink bottled water".
Comments about how environmentally unsound that idea was fell on deaf ears ...
Excerpt from the UK Telegraph:
Bottled water is 'immoral'
17 February 2008
Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser.
"We have to make people think that it's unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong," said Tim Lang, the Government's natural resources commissioner.
Bottled water generates upto 600 times more CO2 than tap water.
Phil Woolas, the environment minister, added that the amount of money spent on mineral water "borders on being morally unacceptable".
Their comments come as new research shows that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car for a kilometre. Conservation groups and water providers have started a campaign against the £2 billion industry.
A BBC Panorama documentary, "Bottled Water: Who Needs It?", to be broadcast tomorrow says that in terms of production, a litre bottle of Evian or Volvic generates up to 600 times more CO2 than a litre of tap water.
See - Bottle water is immoral.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:41 AM
2 Comments:
Ian Kiernan shows he doesn't have an original thought in his head.
Kiernan was also a big backer of the Toowoomba City Council who advised people to buy bottled water if they didn't want to drink recycled water.
Courier Mail:
Bottled water 'bad as smoking'
19 February 2008
Drinking bottle of water same as driving car 1km
Full environmental footprint "frightening"
Office workers not getting green message
DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking.
A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.
Its production generated up to 600 times more CO2 than tap water.
The research was backed strongly yesterday by Clean Up Australia chairman Ian Kiernan, who said using the product was destructive to the environment and users should suffer from social taboos.
"Anyone buying this stuff needs to have their head examined," Mr Kiernan said.
"It works out that for those buying water shipped in from overseas, they are paying something like $9000 to $10,000 a tonne for water that's worth about a dollar here.
"The full environmental footprint is frightening when you take into account the greenhouse gases produced in bottling, trucking and shipping. And do people realise the bottle is made from oil anyway?"
Mr Kiernan said the product had been well marketed to young people from a dietary perspective but bottled water was like plastic bags – yesterday's product.
The bottles also are becoming a major litter problem, with a Clean Up Australia survey finding plastic beverage and other containers account for about half of the top 10 litter items.
Mr Kiernan called on state Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara to introduce a deposit system on drink containers which would drastically lift recycling rates.
Mr McNamara rejected the call, saying a deposit scheme was not being considered. Queensland instead would pursue re-use of a greater proportion of waste.
A Newspoll survey commissioned by Clean Up Australia found that 87 per cent of people supported a deposit system and that a 10c refund on a container would drastically reduce rubbish.
5:13 PM, February 19, 2008
How will all the disciples who bought bottled water and sung the praises of the sewage water get on now?
They are now these immoral people according to Kiernan.
We have the "King of the bottled water industry" in Toowoomba running for a place on the new Toowoomba & Regional Council -
Cr Joe Ramia.
He must be torn with the conflict over the carbon footprint he and his will leave and at the same time sing the praises of the 2050 Visioning document. It is all a lot of crap and we will need sensible people running this new Council who will be able to work they way through to the reality of it all.
9:03 PM, February 19, 2008
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