Fiji Is Ground Zero for the Planet’s Waste Problem- and the Challenge of Stopping It at the Source. 

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Fiji is doing a great work in tackling this problem

Chapeau for your engagement and efforts! 👍👍👍💖

Great work keep it up all involved 👏🏼

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

So Fiji literally littering on Fiji

Pay people fair wages

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

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

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