Comments on: Lessons From The Greenwash Police

By: Are vitamin-fortified Kit Kat bars in our future? – Eat Drink Better

Are vitamin-fortified Kit Kat bars in our future? – Eat Drink Better — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:16:51 +0000

[...] Wall Street Journal. Nestlé is one company that knows the truth of this. I’ve been a vocal critic of their greenwashing positioning themselves as sustainable leaders in the bottled water [...]

By: The Red Flags of Greenwashing - Enviro Rides

The Red Flags of Greenwashing - Enviro Rides — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:02:31 +0000

[...] been writing about greenwash for years. It really irks me that the huge industries like the bottled water industry and consumer products try to portray themselves as environmentally responsible in order to [...]

By: The Red Flags of Greenwashing | Ecopreneurist

The Red Flags of Greenwashing | Ecopreneurist — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:49:34 +0000

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:31:33 +0000

It’s actually

http://www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:30:15 +0000

This is some terribly uncreative marketing. Anybody with half a brain could understand that buying plastic is wasteful. Using your tap water requires 2000 times less energy than it takes to make and recycle a plastic water bottle.

Corporate Accountability International has a great “Think Outside the Bottle” campaign http://stopcorporateabuse.org/category/sitecategories/water you should all check out and support

By: Greener Bottled Water? Really? : Sustainablog

Greener Bottled Water? Really? : Sustainablog — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:02:11 +0000

[...] industry has responded with new packaging designs, and some localities are now taxing, or even banning, bottled water. A new player on the scene, [...]

By: Boxed Water, Anyone? : Sustainablog

Boxed Water, Anyone? : Sustainablog — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:15:09 +0000

[...] of these habits have received as much attention from environmental advocates as disposable water bottles. Why water? Mainly because (disposable) bottled water adds an avalanche of industry to a resource [...]

By: Dianna Harper

Dianna Harper — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:48:06 +0000

You are fussing about the bottle water industry. Have you ever smelled the tap water or tested it. The shower burns you eyes and you want us to drink it? No way. And for those of you who use filters. What do you do with them when they need to be replaced? Throw them in the trash? The problem seems to be not the industries bottles ending up in the land fills. I agree this is bad. Maybe, you should hipe up recycling instead of downing good water.

By: TC/StopNestleWaters.org

TC/StopNestleWaters.org — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:06:19 +0000

Frankly, Nestle’s greenwashing logic suggests it’s better to produce a plastic bottle and recycle rather than not produce in the first place.

That’s twisted.

Another overlooked aspect of Nestle’s impact is its somewhat predatory stance towards small rural towns – the source of most of its “spring” water brands.

Nestle’s sued the tiny town of Fryeburg, Maine five times to try a force the town to OK a truck loading station in a residential area (you should witness the PR spin on that sad episode).

In Florida, their lobbyists successfully pressured political appointees to override water district scientists to permit an extraction more than 3x the recommended rate from the drought-stricken spring (running at its lowest flow rate ever recorded), then employed less than half the originally promised jobs to the state.

In McCloud (CA), they subpoenaed the private, personal financial records of opponents – a clear attempt to intimidate which ultimately failed.

I could go on and on with unpretty examples, but recognize the company’s not simply greenwashing its environmental footprint, but also its moral one.

Tom Chandler/StopNestleWaters.org

By: Tom Lauria

Tom Lauria — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:58:21 +0000

I am Jane’s colleague from the International Bottled Water Association in Alexandria, VA. Excuse me, Jennifer, did you say drinking water was FREE? No water bills where you live? No infrastructure issues? Must be nice.
Anyway, it’s the middle of day, and you’re running erands and you’re thirsty. You can buy a coffee or a cola but you want something healthy and refreshing, so you buy a nice cold bottle of water. Zero calories. Major hydration — it wakes you up! Any attempt by anyone to get people to drink less water is not in the public interest. Why are you targeting the packaged beverage with the smallest possible carbon fooprint? And it is clear people drink more water when they drink bottled water! At the end of day, there’s GREENSMOG…where anti-corporate types hide behind “saving the earth” to bash businesses because they hate capitalism.