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Los Angeles County takes legal action against PepsiCo and Coca-Cola over plastic pollution

Los Angeles County has actually taken legal action against beverage makers PepsiCo and CocaCola, implicating them of contaminating the most populous U.S. county with plastic bottles and misguiding the public about the environmental impact and recyclability of their containers. The county in a suit submitted on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court stated the companies were adding to plastic contamination with their singleuse plastic bottles and were participating in a campaign to trick consumers into believing they were recyclable.

According to the Democratic-governed county's suit, the companies did so in spite of understanding the plastic in their bottles can not be recycled at a scale meaningful enough to balance out the ecological harms of the containers, the majority of which end up at landfills or as litter.

The county competes the plastic pollution traced to items made by the business constitutes a public annoyance that they need to be forced to redress. According to the lawsuit, Pepsi and Coca-Cola needs to be required to pay charges for participating in unreasonable and deceptive service practices.

Coke and Pepsi need to stop the deception and take obligation for the plastic pollution problems your products are triggering, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Lindsey Horvath, a Democrat, stated in a statement.

The business did not instantly react to a request for talk about Thursday. In action to similar suits in the past, they have denied making misleading statements and have stated they were pursuing environmental sustainability.

The case marks the latest in a string of claims by U.S. state and city governments and environmental supporters versus companies that make and market plastics.

Pepsi is currently battling a plastic pollution claim filed by New york city's attorney general of the United States last year, and California's. attorney general of the United States in September likewise sued oil business Exxon. Mobil, which produces polymers, which are used to make. single-use plastic. Both attorneys general are Democrats. An appeals court in Washington, D.C., in August restored a. lawsuit filed in 2020 by the ecological group Earth Island. Institute implicating Coca-Cola of deceptive consumers into. thinking its organization was ecologically sustainable.

More than 400 million lots of plastic waste is produced. internationally every year, with less than 10% of it being recycled,. according to the UN Environment Program, choking landfills and. despoiling oceans.

According to the new claim, plastic accounted for 246,124. lots of all waste materials produced by residences in Los. Angeles County in 2024 and 628,211 tons of all industrial waste. in the neighborhood.

(source: Reuters)