A video showing a machine converting plastic sheets into thin plastic pellets shaped like grains is being widely shared on social media. This grain-shaped plastic is put in another machine and mixed with water. Later, long noodles-like fibres emerge from it, then cut into small pieces. The video claims that it is the plastic wheat production in a wheat mill.
A Facebook user shared this video, saying: “#नकली #गेंहू भी बनने लग गये है मार्केट देख लो आंखें खोल कर अब क्या बचा है नकली बनाने को सभी #किसान साथी इस पोस्ट को ज्यादा से ज्यादा शेयर करें हर ग्रुप में और अमीर लोगों को बताएं कि वह क्या खाते हैं इन नकली चीजों की वजह से ही बीमारियां बढ़ रही है मेरी बात सही लगे तो सभी साथी पोस्ट शेयर करें मेरी आईडी को फॉलो करें.” [English translation: People started making fake wheat, look at the market with open eyes, what is left now to make fake wheat? All #farmer friends, share this post as much as possible in every group and tell the rich people what they eat, and the reason for these fake things. Diseases have been increasing since last year. If you believe what I say, all my friends share the post and follow my ID.]
This Facebook post can be seen here.
It is being widely shared on Facebook and X with a similar claim.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Observing the video carefully, the NM team found a watermark ‘Smartest workers’ written on it. The same video was identified on an Instagram page — Smartest Workers — dated September 24, 2023, with a caption: “Plastic’s New Purpose: Unveiling the Recycling Journey.”
The equipment used in the video is very common in the plastics industry and is a plastic granulator. The factory puts recycled plastic into a plastic pelletizer to produce recycled plastic pellets. These particles are the semi-finished raw materials for making plastic products again.
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We also found the same video on a YouTube channel of Smartest Workers, dated September 24, carrying a user’s comment: “The end product is plastic granules which can be used for purpose of making toys, pens, bottle covers, or any brittle plastic product.”
Earlier, Newsmobile had debunked similar claims. For the fact-check report, click here.
Thus, it is confirmed that the video in question shows the production of plastic granules which is being falsely shared as the production of plastic wheat.
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