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 …
Greenhouse gases have been the big focus of most companies' environmental efforts for several years, with pollution a close second. But another equally pressing environmental issue has received much less attention: water. For most companies in the developed world, water is not much of a problem. Water bills are generally …
US cola giant Coca Cola has said that rival Pepsi is slightly ahead but the Atlanta-based company is determined to push India among its top five markets on the strength of its
The government is increasingly getting conscious about the health of its people. After launching a campaign against tobacco, the health ministry is now considering to ascertain the illeffects of carbonated water or soft-drinks, report Niranjan Bharati & Rajeev Jayaswal from New Delhi. The ministry has asked the Indian Council of …
AFTER labeling all its products with a quality seal last year to put the pesticide row behind it, PepsiCo India is again set to roll out a global first. Starting March end, the soft drink company will replace all existing packs of Aquafina, its packaged water brand, with new labels. …
With the domestic dairy sector slated to cross Rs 500,000 crore in revenues by 2011, milk seems to have found favour with FMCG majors. These companies are trying to develop niche categories to milk in the money. CREAM HUNT # The domestic dairy sector slated to cross Rs 500,000 crore …
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a judgment of the Kerala High Court quashing the Pudussery grama panchayat's order cancelling the licence of Pepsico India Holdings Private Limited for running its factory at Kanjikode in Palakkad. The panchayat cancelled the licence in 2003 stating that there was scarcity of drinking …
pepsi pollutes and it's official now. A recent study by Kerala's groundwater department has traced toxic chemicals in the groundwater at the Pepsi plant in Pudussery panchayat in the arid Palakkad district. The report says the factory has exploited groundwater resources and it can't be allowed to draw more than …
An extract from our weekly column on business SO THE emperor really isn't wearing any clothes. Last week PepsiCo announced that the label on its Aquafina brand of bottled water will soon carry the words "public water source", instead of the innocent-looking "p.w.s.". That's right: Aquafina is to all intents …
Kerala's Cola rift A division bench of the Kerala High Court recently allowed Pepsico to begin operations in its plant in Puthussery village panhayat in Kerala's Palakkad district. In 2004, the panchayat cancelled the firm's licence to operate the plant, alleging that it used excessive groundwater leading to water shortage …
How often does independent research change laws as well as minds? A lobby group in Delhi is forcing the Indian government into new regulations. Apoorva Mandavilli meets its leader.
In a year of remixes, I the cola controversy I was a tune that stayed true to its original from three years ago. In August, the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (cse) put out a report that claimed to have found toxic levels of pesticides
The agenda for agriculture as laid out in the WDR 2008 contains important and urgent messages, but it is limited in its scope. A broader vision is needed that pays more attention to issues of power, equity, and rights. This would emphasise: trade rules that allow developing countries to determine …
on september 22, the Kerala High Court quashed the state government's orders banning production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state. By Section 23(1A) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, only the central government has the right and powers to prohibit manufacture and sale of food …
the day after Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss told Parliament that the Centre for Science and Environment's (cse's) exhaustive study on carbonated beverages was "inconclusive', the Delhi edition of the Hindustan Times carried the story as its lead story on page one. As part of the lead package, the newspaper …
On August 22, 2006, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss virtually gave a clean chit to the cola companies. Within 24 hours, the minister had to issue disclaimers. Ramadoss's initial reactions came in a written statement submitted to the Lok Sabha on August 22, 2006. He was presenting the findings of …
Pesticide residue norms: Cola majors yet to clean up their act, govt drags its feet. Sunita Narain, the feisty director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), likens her campaign against pesticide levels in India's soft drinks to "a dog with a bone that it is determined not to …
