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Prediction: PepsiCo settles and writes a big check to assist with cleanup. The state gets to claim a victory. PepsiCo marketing spins the loss, makes more greenwashing claims, and continues with business as usual.
I’m OK with everything you predict. Beats hell out of nothing.
I use biodegradable plastic shotgun wads (for reloading your own shell, the bit you stuff inside that goes flying away). A bag of 500 was $1 extra, I think, vs. regular plastic?
So either the claim is boolshit and they’re not biodegradable, or these companies could do this at very little cost and are saving pennies per unit? And I would think the extra cost could be recouped with some marketing. “OUR shit breaks down! We’re GREEN!”
Somebody make it make sense. I really don’t know what to think.
Totally.
Well no, it’s bullshit but not for that reason. They don’t want to have to repackage, retool and lose long term storage capability.
They could go back to glass then, and they keep long storage while satisfying recyclability
Ideally yeah.
Those claims of biodegradable on plastic items mean they can break down in an industrial process, which there few of in the world. Its totally misleading.
You think a shotgun wad that can biodegrade could be used to contain soda, not change its taste, and not leech any chemicals that are bad (more bad) for you and hold it under pressure?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PepsiCo has been sued by New York state for plastic pollution along Buffalo River that is allegedly contaminating the water and harming wildlife.
Last week Coca-Cola, Danone and Nestle were accused of making misleading claims about their plastic bottles.
PepsiCo is the world’s second biggest food company and many other big corporations have been facing lawsuits by local authorities about their impact on the environment.
“No company is too big to ensure that their products do not damage our environment and public health,” said Attorney General Letitia James.
When her office conducted a survey of all types of waste collected at 13 sites along the Buffalo River last year, it found that PepsiCo’s single-use plastic packaging was the most significant.
It added that this was a “complex issue” which required involvement from “businesses, municipalities, waste-reduction providers, community leaders and consumers”.
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Do it, fuck them all. No mercy. Fuck corpos
I miss glass bottles. Soda tastes better out of glass bottles. I’d like to imagine a world filled with Mexican Coca-Cola. Where it’s all glass bottles and actual cane sugar.
Can they sell them in a 50 pack please? (The lawsuits I mean)
They need to make plastic too expensive to use, in exactly this way, even the biodegradable plastic, (that just forms microplastics quicker, it still has the same lifespan) all that inescapable plastic they can now measure in the rainfall and the ice cores. They used to say we ate a whole credit card worth each year, a decade ago, the measuring system went quiet, wouldn’t surprise me if that was a monthly thing, now. The zero waste option is so expensive and it should be the other way around.
