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Our shareholder proposal with Dr Pepper Snapple Group gained support from a third of the company's investors at the 2012 annual meeting. Our resolution asked Dr Pepper, the third largest soft drink business in the U.S. with sales of nearly $6 billion annually, to develop a comprehensive recycled content or container recovery strategy.

Read our proxy memo to Dr Pepper shareholders making the argument for supporting our proposal.

Its competitors Coca-Cola and PepsiCo announced significant container recovery goals in 2007 and 2010, respectively.