Author: Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN
New York’s water and parks are full of plastic waste. But litterbugs aren’t the problem, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James. It’s the company that puts so many plastic bottles and packages into world, PepsiCo — the maker of Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Lay’s chips and dozens of other brands. Too often, conversations around environmental protection focus on the individual: What you, specifically, can do to reduce waste, improve recycling or otherwise save the environment. But James and others are making the case that the companies that rely on increasing sales of single-use plastics are the ones responsible, not individual shoppers.