Coca-Cola, Pepsi on Beijing's worst polluter listThe Beijing Beijing (bā-jĭng) or Peking (pē-kĭng, pā–), city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov. plants of US soft drink giants Coca-Cola Coca-Cola soft drink found throughout the world. [Trademarks:Crowley Trade, 115] See : Ubiquity and PepsiCo PepsiCo, Incorporated (NYSE: PEP) is a global American beverage and snack company. The company manufactures, markets and sells a variety of carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, as well as salty, sweet and grain-based snacks, and other foods. have been listed as among the top 12 factories causing major water pollution in China's capital, the city government has announced. The list issued by the Beijing Development and Reform Commission, the capital's economic planning economic planning, control and direction of economic activity by a central public authority. In its modern usage, economic planning tends to be pitted against the laissez-faire philosophy which developed in the 18th cent. agency, was published along with the top 15 energy users in the capital, which included the Beijing Benz-DaimlerChrysler plant. China has set a goal of reducing average energy consumption by 20 percent from 2006 to 2010. This means it has to cut average consumption by four percent annually over the five-year period -- a target it has so far failed to meet. "2009 is a key year for fulfilling our energy-saving and pollution-reduction goals," the commission said in a statement on its website, cited by the Beijing News on Wednesday. The 27 entities will be subject to increased supervision and asked to submit plans to reduce energy use and pollution emissions, the commission said. PepsiCo-Beijing and Coca-Cola-Beijing refused immediate comment on the issue when contacted by AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. on Wednesday. The Beijing News quoted Beijing Benz-DaimlerChrysler as saying it would this year "step up the scope of reducing energy use and emissions, saving energy and treating waste water and waste through technological upgrading". The Tsingtao brewery Tsingtao Brewery (Simplified Chinese: 青岛啤酒厂; Traditional Chinese: 青島啤酒廠; Pinyin: in Beijing, top juice maker Huiyuan and several major Chinese dairy producers made the list of major water polluters. Among Beijing's top energy users were the Capital Iron and Steel Corporation and the American chemical company Praxair. 
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