13,200 Girl Scout Cookie Boxes Destroyed

A CBS News video of 13,200 unsold Girl Scout cookie boxes being destroyed by bulldozer in a warehouse in Riverside, California has been causing a storm of controversy around Los Angeles.

13,200 girl scout cookie boxes destroyed (Image Credit: CBS)

The cookies in question were originally ordered by the San Gorgonio Council of the Girl Scouts in Redlands and are reportedly still within their expiration date.

This is apparently not an isolated incident as the supplier, ABC Bakery, only allows a maximum of one per cent of any unsold cookies to be returned for a refund and this kind of unnecessary food waste goes on all the time.

The report claims that the excess cookies could easily have been donated to any number of charity organizations but the council chose to have the 13,200 Girl Scout cookie boxes destroyed as they could not be refunded.

Chuck McKinnon, a representative for the council, claims he was not aware of the destruction of so many cookies and agreed that they should eve been donated to a local food charity, which they have done in the past.

In the video, a sanitation worker could be heard happily cheering "Goodbye, Girl Scout cookies!" as the unsold boxes of cookies were crushed before going to a nearby landfill site.