Livingston Daily: Some 7,200 gallons of concentrated Mountain Dew syrup created a “huge foaming event” and generated environmental concerns after it went down the drain, literally, at the Pepsi bottling plant on Mason Road in Howell last month.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality was at the plant on several occasions after a tank ruptured and sent the syrup through a floor drain and into the plant’s internal sewer system on March 10, said DEQ Senior Environmental Quality Analyst Carla Davidson.
“A spill of this magnitude is highly unusual,” Davidson said, noting the high-sugar syrup can have a toxic effect on aquatic life if it ends up in rivers, lakes or streams.
Most of the spill was contained, and PepsiCo and city officials said proper procedures were used following the spill. Davidson disagreed. read more
I’d be more worried about the citric acid
content.
Was it really contained?
Wired, toothless fish….no problem.
It sounds like their containment system took care of most of it, so the environmental damage should be mimimal.
Even so, Sorry Dew fans, but I think it’s probably healthier to drink furniture polish.
I used to drink it like there
was no tomorrow,then I discovered
Red Bull… Now I need rehab.
When I get really bored I put Red Bull in my humming bird feeder
That stuff destroys more teeth than meth. Great caffeine buzz, though.
Aren’t humming birds buzzed up enough naturally that you would give them Red Bull. Red Bull is just liquid speed that tastes like shit, I drank it once and crashed 4-5 hr.’s later slapping myself, windows rolled down, radio blasting at warp factor 9 to stay awake while driving, never again. Fortunately I made it home.
The best thing about Mt. Dew is that it’s made by the Obama Foundation, Pepsi. I can’t stand Pepsi or any of its hopey changey alternates, but Mt. Dew is oh-kay if that’s all there is.
Never drank the stuff. I understand it has a very high caffeine content. Perhaps one of the highest of soda pop.
Meh… STILL better than Flint’s water… 😳