A California court has dismissed a legal complaint Greenpeace brought against Walmart, ruling that the activist group itself was not deceived by labels indicating the corporation’s plastic packaging is recyclable. Greenpeace in December 2020 accused Walmart of “seeking to take advantage of consumers’ concerns’’ over plastic pollution by marketing and selling "a variety of single-use plastic products that are labeled as recyclable, when the products are rarely, if ever, recycled." The legal action focused on Walmart’s private label product packaging. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney on Sept. 20 dismissed the lawsuit. She wrote that “nothing in the [complaint] suggests Greenpeace engaged in its investigation in reliance on a belief that the statements on which it bases its claims were true; rather, the [complaint] alleges the action taken by Greenpeace was in response to its belief that the challenged statements were false; in other words, Greenpeace was never misled.”
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