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Has Lays Gone Too Far in Claiming Their Chips Are "Local"?

Tara Lohan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green


Tara Lohan

For most locavores, buying local usually means shopping at your independent Main Street retailer or farmers market, not buying processed foods from a multibillion-dollar enterprise as Lays would have them do.

Snack Wrappers Get Upcycled Into Bags

Earth911.com | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green


With Frito-Lay, TerraCycle will start a new recycling brigade set to collect used chip bags. These bags will become a host of products, from notebooks...

Settlement Will Reduce Carcinogens In Potato Chips

AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 08.22.2008 | Business


LOS ANGELES — Snack lovers, rejoice: Munching on potato chips just got a little healthier. Four food manufacturers agreed to reduce levels of a...

Frito Lay's New Goal: Eco-Friendly Potato Chips

New York Times | Andrew Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


At Frito-Lay's factory here, more than 500,000 pounds of potatoes arrive every day from New Mexico to be washed, sliced, fried, seasoned and portioned...

Snack Companies Search For "Healthy" Junk Food To Protect The Bottom Line

Newsweek | Jennifer OrdoƱez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Except for the occasional oversize bag of naked Cheetos lying around (they're not yet covered in fluorescent orange cheese flavoring), the maze of win...