How Nestle India will destroy 27,000 tonnes of Maggi

 

Nestle will destroy 400 million packets of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator.
India's food safety regulator says tests have found Maggi "unsafe and hazardous" and has accused Nestle of failing to comply with food safety laws.
Nestle has 80% of India's instant noodles market.
The company says that 17,020 tonnes of Maggi are currently with distributors, retail outlets and consumers. They have begun buying back noodles by the carton in order to destroy them.
Once the Maggi is all collected, it will take thousands of truck trips to bring them to five private cement factories where they will be mixed with fuel and subjected to high temperature thermal destruction in kilns.
Nestle says that the current capacity is 700 tonnes a day across five facilities, meaning that it will take at least 40 days to destroy the whole stock