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...products, Tropicana orange juice, which it plans to print on packaging in the future. This innovative move both makes it easier for consumers to be savvy about the environment and holds companies to a higher standard during the manufacturing process. Other leading brands should follow PepsiCo??€™s lead in publishing carbon-footprint numbers, with the aid and the imperative of the government...
...advantages of listing carbon footprints, however, will only apply if the idea is applied on a large scale. PepsiCo should be applauded for its first efforts, but, in order to give meaning to the numbers, other companies must follow its lead. For example, PepsiCo??€™s investigations revealed that one half-gallon carton of orange juice costs the equivalent of 3.75 pounds of carbon dioxide. To most people who don’t spend their lives in laboratories, this number signifies absolutely nothing—yes, it is the result of growing oranges, running a factory, and transporting...
...corrupt policies. This situation brings with it some amount of irony, since in 1996, Harvard came to the forefront of the pro-democracy boycott of Burmese products, when it cancelled a million-dollar contract with PepsiCo, then operating in Burma. Harvard’s protest led not only to PepsiCo??€™s withdrawal from Burma, but the precedent it created also encouraged many major U.S.-owned corporations to follow suit. In light of Harvard’s previous support for democracy and human rights in Burma, it is astounding that HMNH—which has not responded to repeated...
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