09-19-2019, 06:24 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49738889
Burger King UK will no longer give away plastic toys with children's meals, amid pressure to reduce plastic waste.
The fast food restaurant chain is also encouraging customers to bring in old promotional plastic toys, which it says it plans to melt to make other items.
The move comes after two Hampshire children petitioned the fast food giant and its rival McDonald's to stop giving away free plastic toys.
McDonald's said its customers would be able to choose between a toy and fruit.
The petition, organised by Ella, aged nine, and Caitlin McEwan, aged seven, calling for companies to "think of the environment and stop giving plastic toys with their kids meals" has received more than half a million signatures.
Yeah, probably makes sense. I did get a few McDonald's and Burger King toys that I was happy with (they were of somewhat better quality than the Kinder Egg toys I talked about in DB's Cereal Box toys thread), but I just forgot about most of them.
McDonald's seems to be taking a pretty good route, though. If I were a child, I'd probably choose the fruit unless the toy was something I was specifically interested in.
Burger King UK will no longer give away plastic toys with children's meals, amid pressure to reduce plastic waste.
The fast food restaurant chain is also encouraging customers to bring in old promotional plastic toys, which it says it plans to melt to make other items.
The move comes after two Hampshire children petitioned the fast food giant and its rival McDonald's to stop giving away free plastic toys.
McDonald's said its customers would be able to choose between a toy and fruit.
The petition, organised by Ella, aged nine, and Caitlin McEwan, aged seven, calling for companies to "think of the environment and stop giving plastic toys with their kids meals" has received more than half a million signatures.
Yeah, probably makes sense. I did get a few McDonald's and Burger King toys that I was happy with (they were of somewhat better quality than the Kinder Egg toys I talked about in DB's Cereal Box toys thread), but I just forgot about most of them.
McDonald's seems to be taking a pretty good route, though. If I were a child, I'd probably choose the fruit unless the toy was something I was specifically interested in.
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