{"id":407,"date":"2024-06-26T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2024-06-26T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:19:00","slug":"the-city-of-baltimore-sues-pepsico-coca-cola-and-others-over-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"The City Of Baltimore Sues PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Others Over Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elected officials are mandated by their representatives to provide safe, healthy, and pleasant communities. On a local level, the most visible manifestation is the presence and work of law enforcement or public health campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>While plastic pollution is a global crisis, Baltimore\u2019s city hall is addressing the local harmful effects of plastic waste by suing the companies that make and sell products packaged in plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore\u2019s key argument is that these companies, which include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Frito-Lay, among others, is that these firms create a public nuance by selling products that they know will cause environmental harm when 95% of them end up in the environment or are incinerated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-city-of-baltimore-sues-pepsico-coca-cola-and-others-over-plastic-pollution\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials are mandated by their representatives to provide safe, healthy, and pleasant communities. On a local level, the most visible manifestation is the presence and work of law enforcement or public health campaigns. While plastic pollution is a global crisis, Baltimore\u2019s city hall is addressing the local harmful effects of plastic waste by suing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}