Posted on 08/09/2019 3:46:51 AM PDT by Libloather
London (CNN) - McDonald's has reportedly admitted that its new paper straws, rolled out last year to help "protect the environment," can't be recycled - unlike the plastic versions they replaced.
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But the fast food giant acknowledged on Monday that the new versions are too thick to be processed by its recyclers.
"While the materials are recyclable, their current thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed by our waste solution providers, who also help us recycle our paper cups," a McDonald's spokesman told the UK's Press Association news agency.
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In the not distant future, some virtue signaling morons in a city will ban all straws, cups, plates, and napkins. you’ll have to just hold out your hands and the cashier will dump the burger and fries in your hands.
It's kind of like when you get a song stuck in your head and can't get rid of it. In this case, the enviro wackos keep chanting "Recycle. Recycle. Recycle." without actually thinking about what they're jazzed up about.
Based on the marginal comments that McDonalds made....I don’t think any real testing was done with the paper straws. I could tell you....with my experience with slushies and milkshakes....paperstraws are worthless. And if you used paperstraws with regular sodas....there’s a time-limit of maybe ten minutes that they function correctly.
It is biodegradable, which is an improvment. The plastic straws were just being dumped in the Pacific Ocean by the Chinese. Paper straws make a lot of sense. I don’t see a reason to mock McDonalds over this move beyond that their reason is PC and not actually helping the environment. Still an improvement.
I approve.
I remember using paper straws as a kid. Way back when milk shakes were served with a spoon because the straws always failed.
That is so true, a majority of people have no idea the negative impact that recycling has on the environment from transportation, to the process, to the release of fumes etc. And most of it, like plastics, end up in the landfill anyways.
The only material that has a positive impact on the environment if recycled is metal, especially aluminum cans. Everything else is better to be tossed in the trash.
My naive 28-year old sister-in-law went shopping at Publix with me and insisted on carrying the items out of the store in her shirt instead of the paper bags we recycle . . being a liberal means never having to say you’re wrong
Pretty much all paper (well not all of it, but most of it) does indeed go into landfills and is not recycled. It used to be cheap to ship paper to china, etc for recycling, but it has for quite some time been cost-prohibitive to recycle paper for the vast majority of waste management companies/municipalities. It used to be pennies per ton, not it is so it just gets sent to the landfill.
Apparently (as of roughly mid-2018) China is not accepting any garbage/recycling imports.
Any waste management that sends material to be recycled domestically it is probably happening to some extent, but it is wasteful to recycle paper.
Sorry, the last line of the fist paragraph in my response: “not it is so it just gets sent to the landfill.”
Should be:
now it is dollars per ton so it just gets sent to the landfill.
“with my experience with slushies and milkshakes .... paperstraws are worthless”
How did we survive when once upon a time paper straws were used for all drink sucking?
A restaurant we went to recently had paper straws. They were thicker-walled than the old ones and in my opinion not as good as the old ones, which had thinner walls and a wax coating.
“Pretty much all paper (well not all of it, but most of it) does indeed go into landfills and is not recycled.”
Mother nature recycles paper.
Liberal “solutions” make things worse.
These environmental, progressive, climate change wack jobs, are forcing companies to make decisions based on a lying hoax, instead of the companies making wise business choices for the bottom line profits to the stockholders.
More unintended consequences of "good" intentions.
None of this helps the environment or alters what God does with the climate.
These liberals do these things to assuage their guilt from their own failures and bad habits.
In the long run, they just make things worse.
Maybe they could do more good by using paper fishing nets, etc, etc.
[[[My naive 28-year old sister-in-law went shopping at Publix with me and insisted on carrying the items out of the store in her shirt instead of the paper bags we recycle . . being a liberal means never having to say you’re wrong]]]
You should refer her to a good therapist.
Whether they were recyclable or not, Garbage went in same trash. I used a paperstrw for the first time at Disney and not impressed.
McDonald’s should contract with the Trump campaign and use Trump’s plastic straws for drinks in their drive-ins throughout the fruited plain. The straws could be imprinted with McDONald’s on them. Guaranteed to be a winner and money maker.
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