BlueTriton Brands (formerly Nestlé Waters NA) — Ethics Grade F

BlueTriton Brands (formerly Nestlé Waters NA) receives an overall ethics grade of F (15/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Consumer Goods. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 40
• privacy: 90
• consumer: 20
• environment: 5
• humanRights: 15

Documented incidents (3)

• Excessive Groundwater Pumping (high, 2022) — Faced severe criticism and legal challenges for continuing to pump millions of gallons of water from drought-stricken areas in California and Michigan for bottled water profits.
• Plastic Pollution Lawsuit (high, 2023) — Named in multiple lawsuits by municipal governments for the environmental cleanup costs of single-use plastic bottles which dominate ocean and river waste stream surveys.
• False Sustainability Marketing (medium, 2021) — Accused of greenwashing by consumer advocacy groups for marketing its bottled water as 'sustainable' despite the inherent waste of the plastic product and depletion of local aquifers.

Documented good deeds

• rPET Packaging Transition — Announced a commitment to transition Poland Spring and other core brands to 100% recycled plastic (rPET) bottles.

Ethical alternatives

• Liquid Death — Utilizes aluminum cans which have a significantly higher recycling rate and lower environmental impact than plastic.