Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and eight other companies are misleading the public about the costs of plastic pollution and refusing to switch to more sustainable materials to reap higher profits, an environmental group says in a new lawsuit filed in a California Superior Court.
The companies’ actions are a public nuisance, negligent, and constitute a failure to warn over the impact of plastic packaging to oceans, coasts, and marine life, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday by Earth Island Institute in the California Superior Court for San Mateo County.
The lawsuit says the companies are also violating the California Consumer Legal Remedies ...
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