Letitia James claimed that the snack giant was the largest contributor to pollution along the Buffalo River, which a state survey found was contaminated with single-use plastic products.
The New York attorney general sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, accusing the food and beverage giant of endangering the environment and misleading the public about its goals to eliminate single-use plastic in its packaging. Disposable Pp Lunch Box
The attorney general, Letitia James, said her office had found that much of the plastic waste along the Buffalo River was from the company’s products.
Ms. James is seeking unspecified damages and demanding that the company provide a remedy for the contamination in the Buffalo region caused by its products and reduce the quantity of PepsiCo’s plastic packaging entering the river. Ms. James is also demanding that the company stop selling or distributing single-use plastic products in the Buffalo area that do not contain “adequate” warning labels.
“All New Yorkers have a basic right to clean water, yet PepsiCo’s irresponsible packaging and marketing endanger Buffalo’s water supply, environment and public health,” Ms. James said in a statement.
In 2022, the attorney general’s office conducted a survey of pollution in the Buffalo River and found high levels of contamination from single-use plastic products.
A PepsiCo spokeswoman said in a statement that the company “is serious about plastic reduction and effective recycling, and has been transparent in our journey to reduce use of plastic and accelerate new packaging innovation.”
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