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■ It must have cost a packet of dough to clean this lot up ...
Our daily bread The dumped loaves were mostly piled in three different sites throughout Bunyip State Park.
By ANEEKA SIMONIS HUNDREDS of loaves of packaged bread – still within its use-by date – have been found dumped in Bunyip State Park. Robert Fuchs, from Pakenham, and his friend Ricky Dowlan made the bizarre discovery while walking through the State Park before 6pm on Monday (22 February). The loaves, manufactured by Alpine Breads, were piled in three major dump sites, with many others strewn throughout the protected nature reserve. Mr Fuchs, who walks through Bunyip State Park several times a week, said he had never seen anything like it before. “I see little bits of rubbish here and there, but not a big pile of bread like that,” he said, explaining cardboard boxes full of bread were found in addition to the hundreds of loaves. “It was a bit strange.”
Alpine Breads CEO Andrew Bertalli responded quickly to a tirade of complaints lodged on the company’s social media page. He has taken aim at an employee within his own ranks over the curious dumping incident. “I have just been down to the park and we have cleaned this up,” he said. “We’re now trying to track down the employee who did this to hold them accountable. We are disgusted at this and can’t believe this has happened,” he said. Mr Fuchs was impressed with the fast clean-up response by the manufacturer. “I feel good about how they responded. I don’t like to see that sort of thing during a nice forest walk,” he said. The dumped bread’s expiry date was labelled as Thursday, 25 February.
One of the dump sites discovered by the male walkers.
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