Stop the mega plastic production and water bottling at Otakiri
Bay of Plenty
SUSTAINABLE OTAKIRI IS REFUSING TO WALK AWAY FROM ITS DAVID AND GOLIATH BATTLE AGAINST WATER BOTTLING GIANT CRESSWELL NZ (a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring)
The Whakatane District Council and Bay of Plenty Regional Council have given their consent (valid for 25 YEARS!) to Cresswell for a kiwifruit orchard to be levelled to make way for a 16,800m2 water bottling factory, which will:
Take up to 1.1 billion litres of deep-aquifer water each year
Discharge up to 4,500 litres per day of high-phosphorus process water to a local stream that flows into the already polluted Tarawera River
Produce up to 3.7 million plastic bottles each day - up to 1.35 billion plastic bottles per year! (potentially over 33 billion plastic bottles during the 25 year consent period.
Produce an additional 6m3 of compressed plastic waste daily
Require up to 202 truck and trailer movements each day to transport the bottled water to the Port of Tauranga
Export the majority of its bottled water
Create 202 truck and trailer journeys between Tauranga and Otakiri each day - that's one truck every 3 minutes
Previous Givealittle page: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/funding-our-appeal-to-save-our-water
To pay our legal fees and Court of Appeal costs
Extension of goal date 22 March 2022
Hi everyone - thank you so much to everyone who has supported us so far and those who continue to do so. As you know we had our Court of Appeal hearing earlier this month and have run a couple of successful quiz nights recently.
We now await the Judges' decision - not sure how long that will take but we will keep fundraising in the meantime so that we can pay our legal fees and any associated costs involved. To this end we have decided to let this page run for a few more weeks in the hope that we can reach our goal and #saveourwai
Thank you so much for your kind support
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