Nearly a million jars of peanut butter dumped in New Mexico

Sunland,the now closed peanut processing plant in Portales is in the process of dumping over 4-million dollars worth of peanut butter at the Clovis landfill.

The peanut butter was originally going to Costco Wholesale, before the plant shut down last fall.

According to reports, Costco refused the peanut butter and requests to donate it to food banks because the product was littered with leaky peanut oil. The refused order is worth around $2.8 million.

“All parties agreed there’s nothing wrong with the peanut butter from a health and safety issue,” Bankrupcty Trustee Clarke Coll said. “Court records show that on a March 19 conference call Costco sit would not agree to any disposition other than destruction.”

The Sunland estate paid approximately $60,000 to haul the peanut butter away, Coll said. The last of the 58 truckloads are expected to arrive at the landfill today.

Agencies/Canadajournal