Last year, the city issued a new rule that allowed the homeless to have only three belongings with them: a bedroll, backpack and beverage.
When Charlie alerts the flight attendant, she responds by covering the body with a blanket and offering him a free beverage.
In the beverage industry, New Belgium Brewing, Coca-Cola, Nestlé Waters and PepsiCo won praise.
Big brands, including Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, Kraft Foods and MillerCoors, are wasting billions of dollars worth of valuable materials because they sell food and drinks in subpar packaging, according to a comprehensive new report on packaging and recycling by the fast food, beverage, consumer goods and grocery industries.
In fact, a focus on individual behaviour provides cover for the tobacco, food, beverage, and alcohol industries as they expand into developing countries: they are uninterested in having their production and marketing of products curtailed through regulation or restrictions, nor the profits that wide consumption ensures.
Bangladesh's current plan acknowledges unfettered activity of food and beverage companies as a source of the problem, but its strategies are clearly about health promotion for lifestyle change and access to health care – both squarely reliant on individual behaviour.
Yet, remarkably, you can get this particular beverage from the tap, for free.
Millions of dollars are made by major beverage businesses in Nejapa, an expanding industrial area in El Salvador near where Najarro lives.
As reported in a Physical Review E paper, researchers with evidently too much time on their hands conducted an experimental study on beverage spillage, controlling for various walking speeds and initial liquid levels in the cup.
Related: What plastic can learn from steel in a circular economy In the beverage industry, Dr Pepper, Snapple Group, Diageo and Anheuser Busch were categorized as "Needs Improvement".
NRDC's Darby Hoover said food and beverage packaging is a "prime component of the plastic pollution in our oceans and waterways", and that companies have "an opportunity and an obligation" to curb it.
