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16 July 2013 MEDIA RELEASE Bottled water industry supports ACCC position on organic labelling The Australasian Bottled Water Institute (ABWI), a dedicated division of the Australian Beverages Council representing the nation's water bottlers, has today supported the recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission position that bottled water products should not be labelled as organic.
ABWI also represents members» interests to government regulators and the media, communicates with other international bottled water industry groups, and stays abreast of overseas trends and developments.
Oct 4, 2009 London's new drinking fountains a challenge to bottled water industry London may soon follow in the footsteps of Bundanoon, the Australian town that last week banned bottled water and set up drinking fountains for thirsty locals.
The capital's first water stations will be set up this month in a move that could have serious repercussions for the # 1.5bn - a-year bottled water industry, with companies finding it increasingly difficult to justify their carbon footprint as the quality of tap water improves.
This — combined with the energy used to refrigerate and haul the bottled water in trucks, sometimes over hundreds of miles — means the U.S. bottled water industry consumes roughly 50 million barrels of oil per year, equal to 13 percent of U.S. oil imports from Saudi Arabia.
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As massive as the bottled water industry is, its volume pales in comparison to tap water.
«His more than thirty years of sales experience will help to strengthen our core business as we look to identify new areas of growth and further our leadership position in the bottled water industry
«In October 2011 the bottled water industry's peak body established an identical position to that of the ACCC in that bottled water products should not claim to be organic and cited potential problems for labels that continued to carry the term» said the Beverages Council's CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.
Some of the biggest names in the bottled water industry were originally spa towns that wealthy Europeans escaped to during the industrial revolution.
Parker says the bottled water industry uses 650 million litres of underground water a year, just 0.001 per cent of Australia's national supply, «a pretty small drop in the proverbial bucket».
«Naturally, companies and brands in the bottled water industry, especially in the high - end sector, want to know how to attract consumers for premium consumption.»
Today, ABWI is the bottled water industry's preeminent voice, as well as the peak industry association and certification body for bottled water standards covering both bottlers and suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands.
With 3 state - of - the - art manufacturing locations (Ontario, California, and Italy), projects not only encompass the winery and brewery sectors, but has also included pasta sauce production facilities, blending and metering systems for vodka production, tanks and packaging solutions to the bottled water industry and Olive oil production.
It is unhealthy for both us and the planet to keep the bottled water industry in business.
Opponents of the plan, who worry that the water sale would threaten the city's Town of Woodstock watershed or who simply oppose the bottled water industry on general principles have called on the DEC to assume control of the State Environmental Quality Review process.
Tapped examines the role of the bottled water industry and it's effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.
Certainly the sports drink and bottled water industry has pushed the recommendations that more fluid is better while sponsoring many races and individual athletes.
Its acceptance in the sports world — heavily allied with the sports drink and bottled water industry — has been slow.
The high cost — to both the environment and our health — of bottled water is the subject of this documentary that enlists activists, environmentalists, community leaders and others to expose the dark side of the bottled water industry.
The bottled water industry has steadily expanded over the last few decades and it shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Having TreeHugger, church groups and politicians going medieval on them doesn't stop the bottled water industry from fighting back with new ways to keep pumping and bottling.
A short time later Fast Company magazine published «Message in a Bottle,» further exposing the bottled water industry and Fiji specifically.
The bottled water industry has proven that you can get people to pay ridiculous amounts of money for what is essentially tap water.
We've raised awareness nationwide about the environmental, health and equity problems with the bottled water industry.
The Tibet Autonomous Region's government wants massive expansion of the bottled water industry by tapping the Himalayan glaciers, but the environmental stakes are high
We may indeed come back around to the reality of the bottled water industry — that it is a sign of a far deeper problem with the way we manage water supplies, one that needs to be addressed immediately.
Mayor Denis Coderre's comment has alarmed the bottled water industry, while delighting environmentalists.
Bottled & Sold is a must - read for anyone concerned about the bottled water industry or who advocates returning to the tap.
Back to Fiji, where the bottled water industry has become an important business, employing 700 people and bringing in $ 150 million per year.
To get to the heart of the matter I spoke with an expert on sustainability in the bottled water industry, Alex McIntosh, founder and CEO of Ecomundi Ventures.
From research that I have done in the bottled water industry I know that the average half liter PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) bottle is responsible for around 50 grams of greenhouse gas emissions.
Besides panels and demos, the Blue Planet Film Fest will screen a series of great shorts and features, such as the documentary on the Dervaes» homesteading garden «Homegrown Revolution,» «Perchance to Dream» about Miami's Seaquarium orca, Lolita, and «Tapped,» an expose about the bottled water industry.
You can take this one of two ways: that the company isn't all at fault, or that the bottled water industry, with its transportation, raw materials inputs, packaging waste, etc., is a filthy, landfill - choking, carbon - emitting mess.
So, perhaps the best way to sum this one up is: TreeHugger is glad to see that FIJI Water is paying attention to their carbon emissions — because there are a lot of companies, in the bottled water industry and elsewhere, that are not — but not very glad to see that they're using the opportunity to sell more bottled water.
To get a better sense of how outrageous the bottled water industry really is, consider that in 2012 the industry sold about 10 billion gallons of water, pulling in approximately $ 12 billion.
So what is FIJI Water trying to pull?It's sort of a new brand of greenwashing, or at least a fresh take from the bottled water industry.
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