McDonald’s Replaced Plastic Straws With Non-Recyclable Paper Straws in the U.K.

Customers’ demand for a thicker paper straw resulted in one that can’t be recycled

reveals that McDonald’s paper straws — meant to help “protect the environment” — cannot actually be recycled and should be thrown away with other trash.recyclable, but the straw thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed by waste solution providers.

The reason the straws are so thick, McDonald’s said in a statement, is because the chain strengthened them after negative feedback on the original paper straws, whichWhile McDonald’s claimed that this situation is only temporary, there is a cry-laughing-emoji sort of irony in the fact that the chain’s axed plastic strawsrecyclable, and the paper straws are not. But McDonald’s environmental efforts, as bumbling as they may be, are still arguably better than nothing.

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