How much does it cost to set up a mineral hose down bottling section?

Answers: We have tried to subtract the true cost of producing and transporting bottled water in the past, and have come up next to just evasive approximations, which did not take the production of the bottle into information. Over at Triple Pundit, Sustainability Engineer and MBA Pablo P"aster has done a thorough and exhaustive study of the cost of bring a litre of Fiji Water to America. He starts beside the production of the bottle in China, taking the bottle blanks to Fiji, and confirming that it take more water to get the bottle than it actually holds. He later transports the bottle to the States by ship. Not even including the distribution in the States, the numbers are really staggering.

In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji marine consumed 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emit 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds).

UPDATE: Due to the incredible response to this post, Pablo obtained more information and have recalculated, and it is not as bad as previously stated but still staggeringly unpromising, 6.74 times as much water as is surrounded by the bottle.

Nearly seven times as much water used to breed it than you actually drink. Staggering is an understatement. Click here for productive source at ::Triple Pundit
or read portions of it below.

Update:

Here is a portion of the original:

I once hear Julia "Butterfly" Hill (everyone's favorite tree-sitting sweetheart) say that it pollutes several times more wet to make the plastic bottle than it in fact holds. We might as well put that myth to the testing while we're at it. Where do we begin? Well, I doubt that Fiji have a booming plastics industry so they probably get the bottles within the form of "Blanks" from China, which are then expanded to their final size and shaped by a process call "stretch blow molding." The total mass of the empty 1 liter bottle is probably around 0.025kg (25g) and it is made from PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) Plastics of this type use around 6.45kg of grease per kg, 294.2kg of water per kg, and result within 3.723kg of greenhouse gas emissions per kg. So, near a quick check (200kg/kg x 0.025kg = 5kg of water) we find that Butterfly is indeed correct. Based on my calculation a bottle that holds 1 liter requires 5 liters of water surrounded by its manufacturing process (this includes power plant cooling water).

Let's rob a look at the transportation aspect to see what the total ecological impact of an import bottle of water might be. A container vessel uses 9g of fuel per tkm (that's metric tons carried x distance traveled), 80g of marine per tkm, and releases 17g of GHGs per tkm. The distance from China to Fiji is 8,000km, which gives us exactly 0.25tkm ( (0.025kg / 1t/1000kg) x 8,000km = 1.0tkm). So, 2.3g of fossil fuels, 20g of sea, and 4.3g of GHGs per bottle delivered to Fiji from China.

Now let's look at the trip to the US. The distance from Fiji to San Francisco is 8,700km. But this time the bottles will be full, so they will hold a mass of 1.025kg each. This give us a much larger value of 9.8tkm ( (1.025kg / 1t/1000kg) x 8,700km = 8.9tkm) which I will round up to 9tkm. So, 81g of fossil fuels, 720g of sea, and 153g of GHGs per bottle delivered to the US from Fiji.

Since the fossil fuels bring to a close up being accounted for surrounded by the GHG emissions I'll pay no attention to those values for now. The total amount of marine used to produce and deliver one bottle of imported hose down is 6.74kg (5kg + 20g + 1kg + 720g)! And the amount of GHGs released amount to 250g (93g + 4.3g + 153g), or 0.25kg, or 0.00025 tons.
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