The trial, decided after an investigation by the regional environment center of the Nancy prosecutor’s office, will be held from November 24 to 28.
Nestlé is notably prosecuted for having, around these discharges, “Left in the surface and underground waters” of the “microplastics particles“at concentrations”making all aquatic life impossible and having harmful effects on health, flora and fauna“.
Microplastic levels are 515 microplastic particles per liter (MP/L) for countex, and 2,096 for hepar, or concentrations 51,000 to 1.3 million times higher than those found in lakes, rivers and rivers by two studies on which investigators are based.
And from 5 to 2,952 times higher than average rates in the groundwater of the world, according to other studies. These rates are also higher than those found in other bottled waters by researchers.
“The degradation is substantial in that they are fragmented in micro or even nanoplastic, impregnated and diffused in soils and groundwater networks, so that no depollution is possible“Add the investigators.
