Papas Fritas writes:
The Christian Science Monitor reports that Costco will dump almost one million jars of peanut butter into a New Mexico landfill and bulldoze over them after retailer Costco refused to take shipment of the peanut butter and declined requests to let it be donated to food banks or repackaged or sold to brokers who provide food to institutions like prisons. The peanut butter comes from a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a salmonella outbreak in 2012 and although "all parties agreed there's nothing wrong with the peanut butter from a health and safety issue," court records show that on a 19 March conference call Costco said "it would not agree to any disposition ... other than destruction."
Despite the peanut butter being safe, Curry County landfill employee Tim Stacy says that no one will be able to consume the peanut butter once it's dumped because it was immediately rolled over with a bulldozer, destroying the supply. Stacy added more trash will then be dumped on top of the pile. Sonya Warwick, spokeswoman for New Mexico's largest food bank, declined to comment directly on the situation, but she noted that rescued food accounted for 74% of what Roadrunner Food Bank distributed across New Mexico last year. "Access to rescued food allows us to provide a more well-rounded and balanced meal to New Mexicans experiencing hunger." No word yet on where anyone was going to find a million jars of jelly.
(Score: 2, Informative) by song-of-the-pogo on Monday March 31 2014, @07:37PM
You're correct. Further reading indicates that Costco is making the correct decision here.
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 31 2014, @09:47PM
Then again, 25 tons is bugger all, in the grand scheme of things.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 02 2014, @05:26AM
Some electrical generation facilities mix in garbage with what they normally burn.
I image this stuff wouldn't do any worse than that other stuff.
I really hate wastefulness.
-- gewg_