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5 Aug 2003

Author:
The Hindu [India]

Greenpeace demands closure of Coke plant [India]

The global environmental action group, Greenpeace, has urged the State Government to close down the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Plachimada, in Palakkad district, for the `criminal cheating' it had indulged in by passing on to the farmers of the area `toxic waste' in the guise of fertilizer.