Environmentalism / Global Warming

**Zacha341** · August-28-14, 05:55 AM

^^^ What's Nestle doing to our water?

This for example?:

The company [Nestle] dominates nearly a third of the lucrative US bottled water market^[23] with seven domestically-produced subsidiary brands [[including Arrowhead Springs, Calistoga and Poland Spring)—making Nestlé a key contributor to one of today’s most significant environmental threats. That is, US consumers purchase about 28 billion bottles of water every year, but recycle only about 23 percent of the plastic petroleum-based containers used for water or soda. The rest end up polluting roadsides, landfills and oceans, and leach toxins into ecosystems while taking about a millennium to degrade.^{[24]

http://www.foodispower.org/water-usage-privatization/}

**rb336** · August-28-14, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by Zacha341

^^^ What's Nestle doing to our water?

This for example?:

The company [Nestle] dominates nearly a third of the lucrative US bottled water market^[23] with seven domestically-produced subsidiary brands [[including Arrowhead Springs, Calistoga and Poland Spring)—making Nestlé a key contributor to one of today’s most significant environmental threats. That is, US consumers purchase about 28 billion bottles of water every year, but recycle only about 23 percent of the plastic petroleum-based containers used for water or soda. The rest end up polluting roadsides, landfills and oceans, and leach toxins into ecosystems while taking about a millennium to degrade.^{[24]

http://www.foodispower.org/water-usage-privatization/}

I am not a fan of Nestle, but a majority of the water bottled in MI stays in the Great Lakes basin.