Lawsuit Accuses Coke & Pepsi Of ‘Poisoning Everything’
In San Francisco, CA, environmental group Earth Island Institute (EII) is suing Coke and Pepsi, for lying about their recycling habits and creating plastic pollution, which they claim is “poisoning everything.”
In addition to Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the suit also accuses Nestle, Clorox, Danone, Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, Mars, Crystal Geyser and Mondelez of “negligence, creating a public nuisance, breaching their warranties and failing to warn consumers about the dangers of plastics.”
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Additionally, Sumona Majumdar, EII’s general counsel, states, “It is literally everywhere and poisoning everything and we are left to clean it up. Over 90% of the plastic is not being recycled and is either going to a landfill, an incinerator or ending up out in the world as pollution. … There is simply no way we can manage all the plastic that is out there.”
Furthermore, Berkeley-based EII filed the lawsuit in San Mateo Superior Court wholly accuses the companies of overwhelming the world’s ecosystem with plastic waste and falsely claiming that the packaging material they produce would be recycled.
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Currently, the amount of damages Earth Island is seeking, is unknown, but they’re demanding the court order the companies to reduce its plastic production, pay for cleanup and cease their claims and implications of recycling.