Group targets packaging at P&G, General Mills

SAN FRANCISCO (April 28, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- Shareholder activist group As You Sow is taking dead aim at packaging waste and plans to file shareholder resolutions this week asking two major U.S. consumer packaged goods companies to adopt Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs and to fund recycling programs. “We believe it’s time for companies to manage the full life cycle of packaging as efficiently as they manage design and marketing of products,” said Conrad MacKerron, senior director for corporate responsibility at As You Sow, which focuses on promoting corporate responsibility. “We’re burning and landfilling 40 million tons of