New York state sues PepsiCo over plastic pollution in rivers

PepsiCo is being sued over plastic pollution (Ted Shaffrey/AP)

Legal action has been launched against PepsiCo in an effort to hold the drinks giant partly responsible for litter that ends up in rivers supplying the city of Buffalo with drinking water.

The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court by Attorney General Letitia James, accuses the company and its Frito-Lay subsidiaries of creating a public nuisance by making a huge number of plastic bottles and wrappers, some of which inevitably fall or blow into the Buffalo River when they are discarded.