This report focuses on the actions and responsibilities of four of the world’s biggest plastic polluters: CocaCola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever. These companies continue to sell billions of products in single-use bottles, sachets and packets in developing countries. And they do this despite knowing that: 1) waste isn’t properly managed …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After Coca Cola, another soft-drink major Pepsi has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala which has alleged that its plant in Palakkad district was extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants. The plant at Pudussery was found to have been …
Seema Sindhu / New Delhi June 11, 2010, 0:03 IST Ram Prasad Ghosal, a potato farmer from Bamunpara (Dist Burdwan) in West Bengal, owns 10 acres of land. Just two months earlier, though, his ilk faced a major scare. The region witnessed a bumper potato crop of 9.5 million tonnes
In 2001, then-Surgeon General David Satcher issued a landmark statement that obesity had reached epidemic proportions in America. The country began to react, but slowly. As the F as in Fat report has documented over the previous six years, efforts to address the skyrocketing rise of obesity rates and obesity-related …
First Unit To Achieve Positive Water Balance By Replenishing More Water Than Used Ratna Bhushan NEW DELHI THE Indian arm of PepsiCo has become the first of its global units to put more water back into the environment than it consumes, the company said. The beverage giant has achieved
SMALL FARMERS WHO SUPPLY THE TUBER TO PEPSI HAVE BENEFITED A LOT SUNIPA DAS GUPTA & ASHOK GULATI WHEN POTATO PRICES CROSSED THE Rs 20-per-kg mark a few months ago, the consumer had to pay through her nose and cried for relief. In tandem with general expectation, arrival of the …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi April 23, 2010, 0:58 IST Industry may soon have to pay a lot more for the water it uses. The Union government is in talks with various state governments to draft a model Bill that would lead to a multi-fold increase in water charges for …
Fifteen months after moving into a new town, house and job, Michelle Obama is defining her role as first lady by taking on the $600 billion food and beverage industries in a quest to end childhood obesity within a generation. Her lobbying of companies to make products healthier, labels easier …
Alliance, Likely To Be A 50:50 JV, May Initially Consider Wellness Packaged Water THE proposed Tata Tea-PepsiCo joint venture for noncarbonated, health and wellness beverages is believed to be exploring the low-cost, bottom-of-pyramid segment of beverages. Two officials close to the development told ET that the JV is considering leveraging …
HARDLY a week goes by without a food brand announcing a health initiative as they seek to position themselves as a force for good in the fight against obesity. Last week, for example, PepsiCo UK unveiled its inaugural Health Report, a 10-year strategy intended to make its brands, which include …
To Madhuraj, the camera is a third eye. His Water Plunder exposes the large-scale exploitation of drinking water by MNCs and the resistance put up by the village communities against this, notes K A Antony For eight years now, the people of Plachimada, an otherwise nonde script village in north-central …
In the last decade, rising and volatile energy prices coupled with increasing concern about climate change and growing support for action on energy and environmental issues has driven a surge of corporate environmental commitments. Energy efficiency has emerged as a key component of these commitments. Leading firms that give greater …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cola major Pepsico today denied the charge that its plant in Pudussery in Palakkad district has been causing depletion of ground water in the arid area by over extraction of water. Reacting to the report of the Kerala Assembly's Subject Committee in this regard, a company release said an …
State Assembly recommends imposition of curbs on extraction of water by the plant. Taking a serious note of the alleged exploitation of groundwater by Pepsi, a committee of the Kerala Assembly today recommended imposition of curbs on extraction of water by the multinational cola giant
The Left Government in Kerala seems to be bracing for another war on softdrink giants Pepsico and Coca-Cola. An Assembly panel, constituted to look into the ground water exploitation by the Pepsico bottling plant at Pudussery in Palakkad on Wednesday submitted the report in the House, suggesting that drawing of …
Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as drought or floods can have a devastating impact on food security as well as the social and economic development of rural households. In recent years, an increasing number of initiatives have tested weather index-based insurance to help manage these risks in agriculture. …
If you care about the environment, you may want to show that in the way you spend your money. These decisions could help steer us towards a truly green economy - but only if consumers and investors have a good idea of which companies have genuinely minimised their impact on …
Not Willing To Slow Down Production During Peak Demand Months Of Summer, Cos Place Order For Delivery Up To June UNDETERRED by 30-year-high world market prices, beverage companies Coca-Cola & PepsiCo are scrambling to buy sugar overseas to make sure they are not compelled to slow down bottling lines during …
