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…
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How to Deal with Hog Waste
North Carolina is the second-largest hog producing state in the United States. Thus, disposal of hog waste is a constant concern and contentious issue. In a new paper, Kelly Lester of the John Locke Foundation describes what has failed and what might work. The Failures: “Regulatory Overreach. Government regulations, rather than addressing the root of…
Can New York City Cope with Its Trash? Maybe . . .
New York City “is fighting a constant yet seldom-acknowledged battle against an unwavering adversary: trash,” writes Arpit Gupta writes in a Manhattan Institute policy brief. “A veritable arms race between creation and disposal, New York’s trash battle is a tale of human ingenuity and resilience, as the city relentlessly pursues better methods to keep its…