Yes, Attorney General Letitia James doesn’t just have former president Trump in her sights. Now it’s PepsiCo. Why?
According to a survey of waste along the Buffalo River, 17 percent of the plastic waste was packaging from Pepsico products. (These may include packages by PepsiCo’s subsidiaries Frito-Lay and Frito-Lay North America. They too are named in James’s suit.)
In other words, buyers of Pepsi have been dropping more packaging from PepsiCo than from other producers. So she’s suing Pepsico.
Marrissa Heffernan of Resource Recycling writes:
“Attorney General James’ office said it found that single-use plastic produced by PepsiCo ‘contributes significantly to high levels of plastic pollution along the Buffalo River,’ which contaminates drinking water and harms wildlife with microplastics and chemicals.
“A 2022 study found that of 1,916 pieces of plastic collected from the watershed with an identifiable brand, over 17% were PepsiCo, making it three times more abundant than the next highest contributing brand, McDonald’s.”
Pepsi vending machine image is by quinn.anya is and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.