NY Sues PepsiCo In Effort To Hold It Responsible For Litter That Winds Up In Rivers

[Elmira Telegram 285]

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Albany, N.Y. — New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water supplying the city of Buffalo with drinking water.

The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court by Attorney General Letitia James, accuses the company and its Frito-Lay subsidiaries of creating a public nuisance by making a huge number of plastic bottles and wrappers, some of which inevitably fall or blow into the Buffalo River when they are discarded.

 

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[KarenK 351]

You have got to be kidding me.

[Ann 215]

2 hours ago, KarenK said:

You have got to be kidding me.

How can the company be responsible for what consumers do with the product?  Oh, wait, if gun manufacturers are responsible for what people do with their products why not go after other companies.  Let’s drive more business out of NYS Ms. James.

[MsKreed 1,045]

PepsiCo is responsible. 

Because Nestle, The Coca-Cola Company, and Kraft Heinz don’t produce and package beverages and snack foods “that mostly come in plastic containers meant to be thrown away or recycled once they are empty.

And we have some special concern about the Buffalo River. Because the the PepsiCo litter somehow doesn't turn up in the Hudson and every other river in the state?

Seems oddly specific. Thanks for your diligence, Tish.

 

 

I do find some humour in the thought that we likely have some wackadoodle neighbours in NYS who are so afflicted with “green psychosis” that they will try to rationalise this waste of taxpayer money and cheer this virtue signaling.

[Chris 1,895]

Future headline: “PepsiCo Announces Departure From NY”

 Remember when we used glass but “they” said plastic was better for the environment? God times…good times.