Los Angeles County sued beverage manufacturers PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, accusing them of polluting the most populous county in the United States with plastic bottles and deceiving the public about the environmental impact and recyclability of their packaging. The county, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, said the companies were contributing to plastic pollution with their single-use plastic bottles and were engaging in a campaign to deceive consumers into believing they were recyclable. According to the lawsuit from the Democrat-governed county, the companies did this despite knowing that the plastic from their bottles cannot be recycled on … Continue reading Los Angeles County Sues Pepsi and Coca-Cola Over Single-Use Plastic Pollution and Misleading Recycling Claims