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- 2021's top plastic polluters and a new petition to stop them Tue, 2 Nov 21, 4:30amThe Break Free From Plastic movement has been gearing up for COP26 in Glasgow. The movement released its list of top plastic polluters, collected over 13,000 signatures on a petition calling for the Biden administration...
- Top 3 plastic polluters are CocaCola, PepsiCo and Nestle. Again. Tue, 8 Dec 20, 4:30amMay we have the envelope, please? Let's see who this year's top plastic polluters are. In third place, with 8,633 pieces of plastic waste found in 37 countries, is Nestle. Second place goes to PepsiCo, with 5,155...
- Walkers launches free recycling program amid growing pressure from critics Tue, 9 Oct 18, 8:00amAn online social media campaign calling for popular U.K. chip manufacturer Walkers to adopt a more sustainable packaging method has succeeded. After hundreds of thousands of empty potato crisp packages were sent back to Walkers...
- Environmental campaign floods UK Royal Mail with empty potato chip bags Sat, 29 Sep 18, 5:30amThe U.K. postal service has implored its public to stop mailing empty potato chip bags addressed without an envelope after a surge in chip bag mailings was encountered by its courier offices. The mailings are part of an environmental...
- Pepsi launches new drink option with reusable bottle Sat, 17 Feb 18, 2:50amSoda is struggling, with sales of non-diet soda dropping by over 25 percent during the last 20 years, according to Co.Design. In response, PepsiCo is trying something new: a product they're calling Drinkfinity with reusable,...
- PepsiCo to Remove Flame Retardant from Gatorade Thanks to Teenager’s Petition Mon, 4 Feb 13, 5:03amWe know what you’re thinking. “Wait, there are flame retardants in Gatorade?” Yep, Brominated vegetable oil (BVO), a chemical that’s used as a flame retardant, is included in drinks like Gatorade...
- New California Plant Will Recycle 2 Billion Plastic Bottles a Year Sat, 24 Mar 12, 1:40amA recycling plant that will recycle up to 2 billion PET bottles a year recently opened this month in Riverside, California. Governor Jerry Brown attended the opening ceremony for the carbonLITE facility that the company...
- Frito-Lay Plant in Arizona Approaches Net Zero Energy Fri, 7 Oct 11, 7:40amFrito-Lay and its parent company PepsiCo probably aren’t the first companies that come to mind when you think about green businesses, but with the unveiling of Frito-Lay’s new facility in Arizona, the company...
- Did You Know That Plant-Based Bottles by PepsiCo and Coke are Actually Not Biodegradable? Thu, 16 Jun 11, 12:58amWe badly wanted to believe that plant-based PET bottles would solve our plastic woes, but that is not the case, according to a recent Slate story. Although PepsiCo’s 100% plant-based PET bottles have a lower carbon...
- PepsiCo Unveils World’s First 100% Renewable Food-Based PET Bottle Wed, 16 Mar 11, 2:59amPepsiCo just unveiled a brand new, 100% renewable PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based resources that could revolutionize the bottling industry...