Coca-cola continues environmental abuse in India

quote:A fact-finding team led by the India Resource Center to a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Sinhachawar in the state of Uttar Pradesh issued a report today detailing the violations. Specifically, the team found that:

• The plant is indiscriminately dumping its sludge, considered to be industrial hazardous waste, across the plant premises, in complete violation of the laws regarding handling and disposal of industrial hazardous waste in India.

Read the full report

Despite the ongoing international boycott of Coca-cola for human rights and environmental abuse, they continue to degrade the environment in India.

Thanks surfdoc, an interesting link. I've been aware of that particular issue for some time now, though not through any MSM sources. (sarcastically surprised emoticon) I think there may have even been a rabble piece on it a while back.

There doesn't seem to have been much movement toward solving this. Though Coke may be the most high profile, I wonder how many other bottling operations are getting away with this.

I know that in 2003, the New York Times ran a story about a Pepsi plant in Kerala, India having its water-use permit revoked because of fears of exploitation of groundwater.

Coke still looks like the worst of the two evils from my point of view though.

For more information on Coca-Cola's abuses, check out killercoke.org

A sister publication of Monthly Review in the States is the Indian website of the Research Unit of Political Economy (RUPE). [5]. Their December 2006 issue has a number of articles about food and agriculture in India that may be of interest for those reading this thread.