{"id":120845,"date":"2024-01-04T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T05:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/new-york-state-sues-pepsico-claiming-its-plastic-pollution-endangers-public-health\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T07:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T05:59:01","slug":"new-york-state-sues-pepsico-claiming-its-plastic-pollution-endangers-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/new-york-state-sues-pepsico-claiming-its-plastic-pollution-endangers-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Sues PepsiCo Claiming its Plastic Pollution Endangers Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120845\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>New York\u2019s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has called out PepsiCo as the top contributor to plastic pollution in the Buffalo River\u2014allegedly responsible for three times the plastic floating in this Great Lakes water body than McDonald\u2019s. The multinational fast-food franchise was identified as the second largest offender in an OAG study. The findings led New York State Attorney General Letitia James to file a lawsuit against PepsiCo, which charges that the New York State-headquartered soda and snack food giant is contaminating drinking water and endangering human health and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>The civil lawsuit brought to the Supreme Court of New York\u2019s Erie County charges that PepsiCo, which reportedly produced 2,600,000 tons of plastic packaging in 2022, \u201chas misled the public about its efforts to combat plastic pollution while increasing production of single-use plastic packaging\u201d and, in doing so, contributes to a \u201cpublic nuisance that injures the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo River is a freshwater tributary, once considered one of the most polluted rivers in the US due to various manufacturing practices and chemical and sewage discharges. For years it was literally considered \u201cbiologically dead,\u201d devoid of fish. Microplastics have also been detected in drinking water that\u2019s sourced within a mile of the Buffalo River\u2019s mouth as well as in the region\u2019s freshwater species who mistake it for food and ingest it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waste360.com\/waste-recycling\/new-york-state-sues-pepsico-claiming-its-plastic-pollution-endangers-public-health\">Waste360<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/2-454\/\">New York State Sues PepsiCo Claiming its Plastic Pollution Endangers Public Health<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,7240,759],"class_list":["post-120845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-pepsico","tag-plastic-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}