4/11/08|FIJI Water’s Thomas Mooney talks about FIJI Green
Our Senior VP Sustainable Growth, Thomas Mooney, recently spoke with Sustainable Life Media. In this interview, Thomas explains how we’re planning to fulfill the FIJI Green promise and answers the criticism that ìbottled waterî and ìsustainableî donít belong in the same sentence. You can read the interview†here†or listen here.
everett cox says:
April 18th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Mr. Mooney,
I congratulate you and your company’s efforts to clean up your emissions and reduce your carbon footprint and especially your efforts to stop the clearcutting of the Sovi Basin.
I assume you ship your products to the Port of Los Angeles? As you might be aware, they have recently required all trucking lines to use ULSD diesel fuel, which is a good thing, but do the shipping companies you use still burn bunker fuel, or have they also switched to cleaner diesel fuel? Container ships using high-polluting bunker fuel contribute a significant amount of pollution not alone to their ports of entry but to the shipping lanes all around the world.
I live near Ft. Worth, Tx USA and will look for Fiji water the next time I go grocery shopping. I normally buy Dasani water, but I don’t know how Green they are.
Best regards,
Everett Cox
Cox Trucking Co.
FIJI Green Gal says:
April 19th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Mr. Cox, thanks for your feedback and your question. Shipping companies have had several initiatives underway to address their environmental impact. For example, Maersk Line details such initiatives here: http://www.maerskline.com/link/?page=brochure&path=/about_us/environment
Ocean freight continues to be the most energy efficient way to transport goods, but even so, there is always room for improvement. That is why FIJI Water is a member of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), which “helps companies achieve commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities, and the environment,” and why we are part of BSR’s Clean Cargo Working Group, a group of shippers and carriers committed to working toward such improvements in shipping and overland transport.