{"id":2101172,"date":"2023-11-16T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-sues-pepsico-due-to-pollution-along-buffalo-river\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:30:54","slug":"new-york-sues-pepsico-due-to-pollution-along-buffalo-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-sues-pepsico-due-to-pollution-along-buffalo-river\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Sues PepsiCo Due To Pollution Along Buffalo River"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-sues-pepsico-due-to-pollution-along-buffalo-river%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2101172&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FILE \u2013 Pepsi soft drinks in \u200bplastic bottles are on sale at a grocery store, Wednesday,\u200b Nov. 15, 2023, in New York. New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, Nov. 15, in \u200dan effort to hold the\u2063 soda-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-sues-pepsico-due-to-pollution-along-buffalo-river\/\" title=\"New York Sues PepsiCo Due To Pollution Along Buffalo River\">-snack food giant partly responsible<\/a> for \u200clitter that winds up in bodies of \u200cwater that supply the city of Buffalo with drinking water. (AP Photo\/Ted Shaffrey,\u200d File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth \u2062Volberding<br \/><\/a>2:25 PM \u2013 Thursday, November 16, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>New York\u2019s Attorney General Letitia James has filed a\u2063 lawsuit against PepsiCo in an effort \u200dto hold the soda-and-snack company accountable for pollution of its products that ends up\u2064 in rivers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, James accused PepsiCo of producing a large amount \u2064of litter and pollution to the environment, as well as endangering the well-being of the public after its single-use plastics were\u200c found along \u200bthe Buffalo River.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which was\u200b filed in state\u200c Supreme \u200cCourt, is attempting \u2062to mandate PepsiCo and its subsidiaries, Frito-Lay \u2063Inc. and \u2064Frito-Lay North America Inc., to \u201cclean up its mess.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Single-use plastic \u200cpackaging, involving food wrappers and plastic\u2063 bottles, have been located\u2062 along \u2063the shores \u2063of the Buffalo River and nearby areas, polluting and contaminating drinking water supply for the\u200b city of Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit asserted\u200c that by \u2064the company producing so much plastic, the environment has\u200d been extremely \u200cdamaged.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cNo company is too big to ensure that their products\u2064 do not \u200cdamage our environment and \u200dpublic health. All New Yorkers have\u2062 a basic right to clean water,\u2062 yet \u2063PepsiCo\u2019s irresponsible packaging and\u2064 marketing endanger Buffalo\u2019s water supply, environment, \u200dand public health,\u201d James said\u200b in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last year, Pepsi produced about 5.7 billion pounds of plastic packaging, which weighs as much \u2064as seven Empire State Buildings.<\/p>\n<p>With these massive \u2064amounts of plastic, it&#8217;s no surprise that the vast majority \u2062of trash we found along the Buffalo River was Pepsi&#8217;s plastic\u200c packaging. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wPPAVipmaP\">pic.twitter.com\/wPPAVipmaP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NY AG\u200c James \u200c(@NewYorkStateAG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewYorkStateAG\/status\/1724863542879236277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The lawsuit additionally claimed \u200bthat \u2063PepsiCo\u200b is one of the \u200bbiggest contributors to the plastic waste\u200b contamination\u200d problem \u200doccurring at\u200c the Buffalo \u2064River. According to a 2022 \u2064survey \u200badministered by the state Office\u200c of the Attorney\u200d General,\u00a0out of the 1,916 pieces of plastic waste \u2063that contained a \u2062well-known brand, 17.1% were manufactured by PepsiCo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, NY Attorney General Letitia James is suing\u200b Pepsi for its use of \u200bsingle-use \u2063plastic\u200c packaging. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3uHXxirHsV\">https:\/\/t.co\/3uHXxirHsV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KvaXRGabPk\">pic.twitter.com\/KvaXRGabPk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2063Erik Uebelacker (@Uebey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uebey\/status\/1724832726279168007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Jill Jedlicka, the executive director\u200d of \u2064Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, made a statement regarding Buffalo River\u2019s contamination issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cOur Buffalo community \u2062fought for \u200dover 50 years to secure hundreds of millions of \u200cdollars to clean up toxic pollution, improve habitat, and restore communities around the\u2062 Buffalo River,\u201d said Jedlicka. \u201cWe will not\u2064 sit idly by as our waterways become polluted again, this time from ever-growing single-use plastic pollution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New \u200cYork\u2019s attorney general also requested in the lawsuit that PepsiCo stop all product sales and distribution in the Buffalo area without informing customers of\u2062 the possible health and environmental hazards\u2063 associated \u200cwith the product\u2019s packaging. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the lawsuit aims to prevent the company from adding to the \u200cplastic pollution that is bothering the people in the Buffalo region and to create \u200ca plan to lessen the amount of single-use plastics it releases into the Buffalo River.<\/p>\n<p>PepsiCo, whose headquarters are \u200dlocated in\u2062 New York, manufactures and packages around\u2063 85\u200b different drink brands, including Gatorade and Pepsi, and\u2063 approximately 25\u2063 snack food brands that are mainly produced \u2063in single-use plastic containers.<\/p>\n<p>Over recent years, PepsiCo\u200c has consistently promised that it \u2063would make\u2064 a\u2063 great effort to \u2064help \u2064reduce the use of\u200c plastics. \u200bHowever, the lawsuit reports that the opposite is\u2064 occurring, and that the company lied \u2064to the public \u200babout its efforts to fight plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! 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This amount is\u2062 said \u2062to weigh\u2062 as \u200bmuch\u2063 as seven Empire\u200b State Buildings. With such massive quantities of plastic being produced, it comes as no \u200csurprise that a significant \u200bamount of trash found along the\u200c Buffalo River is \u200dcomposed of Pepsi&#8217;s plastic packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic\u2063 pollution is a widespread\u200c concern globally, and New\u200d York state&#8217;s lawsuit against \u2063PepsiCo highlights the need for corporations to take responsibility for \u2063their impact on the environment. Single-use plastics, such as food wrappers \u200dand plastic bottles, contribute significantly to plastic pollution and pose immense threats to \u200bthe ecosystem\u2062 and \u200bpublic health.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u200c the\u200d lawsuit, PepsiCo&#8217;s irresponsible packaging and\u200d marketing practices endanger not only the city of Buffalo&#8217;s water\u200b supply but\u200c also its environment and public health. The accumulation of single-use plastics along the \u2063shores of the Buffalo\u200d River has led \u200dto\u200b the contamination of\u2064 the drinking water\u200b supply, jeopardizing the basic \u200cright of New Yorkers to clean water.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s Attorney General Letitia James emphasized that no company should be exempt from ensuring that their products do \u200dnot harm the environment and public health. She asserted that\u200c all New Yorkers have the fundamental right to clean water, and PepsiCo&#8217;s practices have infringed upon this right.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit\u2063 aims to hold PepsiCo and its subsidiaries, Frito-Lay Inc. and \u2064Frito-Lay North America Inc., accountable for the \u2064pollution caused \u2063by their products. The state is seeking to enforce measures that would require PepsiCo to clean \u200cup the litter and contamination resulting from its single-use plastics.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental organizations and activists \u2062have long called for stricter regulations on \u2063plastic use and waste management. The lawsuit against PepsiCo serves as a reminder that corporations must prioritize sustainable and environmentally friendly practices to reduce the harmful impact of plastic waste on ecosystems \u200dand public health.<\/p>\n<p>PepsiCo&#8217;s case is not \u2062unique, as several \u200cother companies have faced \u2064legal action and public scrutiny\u2062 for their contribution to plastic pollution. This lawsuit sheds light on the urgent need\u200b for companies to adopt alternative packaging materials\u200c and recycling initiatives \u2063to mitigate the damage caused \u200cby single-use plastics.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u200b lawsuit unfolds, the outcome will likely set a precedent for future \u200clitigation against corporations that fail \u2062to address their responsibility\u2064 in environmental preservation. It is vital for governments, organizations, and individuals to \u200dcollectively work towards reducing plastic\u2062 waste and\u200c finding sustainable solutions that protect our water resources \u2064and natural habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 Pepsi soft drinks in plastic bottles are on sale at a grocery store, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in New York. 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