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by heurisko 1311 days ago
It's apparently not economical to separate the plastic packaging from expired product. I've seen the same happen to old packets of biscuits being shredded.

I always think environmental charities should prepare an advert against the practice with a family eating breakfast, then one person picking some plastic packaging from their teeth.

You can see a Youtube video of it happening here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSse5hX4hI4

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But that video shows them separating the packaging from the food.
I may have not used the right video, I can remember watching a documentary in the UK where things weren't separated properly, and they showed pieces of blue wrapping still in the feed.