Glad to see this. Not buying Fiji water moving forward. It's a mess.

@MichaelPrescia

28 күн бұрын

Stop buying water period! I built a water collection table with a filter and have endless free, filtered rain water. Also use filter pitchers from relatively clean tap water in NY. Lets back up what we believe in. No more plastic.

My beautiful Island home ❤ BTW Fiji water DOES NOT PAY GOVERNMENT ANY TAXES!!

@nueat6

29 күн бұрын

Wow thats crazy. they banking for sure.

I miss the days when most things were in glass bottles.

Here in Canada it's a huge social issue, it's even entered class wars. Garbage is just another toxic waste they dump in the deemed poorest and unwanted areas of their society.

@martina5296

29 күн бұрын

Out of sight, out of mind and alot less than in developed countries with pay laws, etc. . They are treated like expendables, casualties and whatever happens it's their fault. Just keep people down to "serve" the wealthy and powerful politicians.

@user-wickedflower

29 күн бұрын

@@keetahbrough same with fast fashion dumping. This needs to be addressed. Everything deemed as rubbish gets dumped in the ocean we will have no healthy marine life or healthy humans either.

In the U.S., there are only a very few states that have bottle deposit laws, and I'm proud to say my state of Maine is one of them. Like Fiji, we treasure our land and coastal waters not only because we live in 'vacation land' but because it is the right thing to do for us today and future generations.

maybe Fiji should say no to plastic bottles & change to tetra (cardboard) . Not just Fiji - the whole world It has been used in the past & it worked.

why cant we have a standard plastic bottle for companies to use?

When I was in Bali last year I noticed there was no trash removal system, no recycling, most trash and waste is burned.

Beyond intense and heart wrenching. I have been disturbed of late by the use of the term "net-zero emissions" as some sort of parade banner; officials suggesting that solutions are at hand; some strategy to be put in place that will lead to an answer regarding plastics pollution and to CO2 and other toxic gas emissions. Am I allowed to include discarded plastics as a carbon emission? They are, whether we acknowledge it or not. The term "emission" does not cover the scope of what we face with regard to carbon pollutants; it does not encapsulate the larger whole of carbon waste and carbon pollution we produce. Plastic waste floating in the oceans is an emission; included in the long list of carbon and other pollutants. Are we seeing "net-zero pollutants" being waved as a parade banner, as a promise to change how carbon waste is run amok? Net-Zero Emissions is supposed to mean that what we emit is balanced out by what we cleanup. Somehow, if we emit a trillion tons of carbon pollution, we clean up a trillion tons of carbon pollution. For the category of plastics waste, Net-Zero would mean we cleanup (or don't produce) a trillions tons of plastic waste for every trillion tons we produce. Thing is, what I am saying here, our carbon problem is not simply about a CO2 and a warming of our planet's atmosphere and oceans. Converting oil and other carbon resources into plastics and letting their disposition be landfills and ocean fills cannot be the final solution. That is nuts. Yes; as I look deeper; I see there is "Net Zero Plastics" as an agenda too. I am going to be more attentive to officials who talk about net-zero emissions, in a "we already have this solved sort of way", to see if they are comprehensive regarding every and all carbon based pollutants.

Sad. They should be getting more. The other plastic should not be burned And they shouldn't have to wash it. Unreal

Fiji is doing a great work in tackling this problem

This is educational and deep! Thank you for sharing ❤.

Great work keep it up all involved 👏🏼

Your on the right path of measuring the amount of plastic that ends up in no recycled facilities near by. It's incredible that the ocean currents carry it to your beaches from Latin American countries. My big question is there any environmental office in those countries that you can talk to about how much plastic waste is in your country and can they use your program to ♻️ there own waste? Europe 🇪🇺 has you separate plastic, glass, aluminum and paper products. Can you convert this type of waste into energy like here in Honolulu, Hawaii? It's an ideal worth looking into instead of the elderly women in the community doing the plastic burning. Poor Aunty's doing that to get by on.

Chapeau for your engagement and efforts! 👍👍👍💖

we need to hold these companies accountable! I know there's not a ton of regulations for them right now and they try not to take the blame for how much pollution they're responsible for- that's why we need to keep raising awareness and hold them accountable for it. something needs to be done and it is not all on the people suffering from its affects to do something about it. the companies need to be made to help. this has inspired me to get more involved too.

Tourism is a big killer in Fiji as well. Let’s not forget how capitalism as a driver of accumulation and surplus is the number one problem in this situation. This traditionally paints the problem as if it’s the individuals fault.

Good people doing good work, but imagine having a bottled water company as the country's biggest taxpayer and business. Wow.

Fiji Water is an American Fortune 500 company who does not pay ANY tax to the Fijian Government.

Buy a water purification system - You will break-even in less than a year. Use reusable aluminum canisters. We can stop the idiocy of plastic bottles if we choose. I am so sick of Western corporations destroying indigenous lands.

I wonder what the plastic content in the Fiji water they sell is then..... maybe not worth the extra money

So Fiji literally littering on Fiji

Pay people fair wages

Replace plastic with the type of containers we use for milk.

@Svid1701D

29 күн бұрын

@@Castaway..... In the US, we use plastic for milk. We use plastic for everything. Pretty soon, we will just eat flavored plastic. Then our bodies will just turn to plastic. And finally man will have achieved perfect immortality, devoid of heart, soul, or god.

Why is time® factored into my algorithm #utoo #nsa #nasa seriously do you want more or less b.c.

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