McDonald's ditching plastic straws for paper

From next month, the McDonald's restaurants in the Netherlands will give customers paper straws instead of plastic. The fast food chain is also ditching the plastic lids on their McFlurry ice creams, McDonalds announced, AD reports. According to the fast food chain, this measure will spare 100 million straws and 17 million McFlurry lids on an annual basis. That is 72 thousand kilograms of plastic per year. McDonald's, the largest catering chain in the Netherlands with 254 restaurants, says it is taking responsibility for a cleaner and more sustainable society with this measure.Submitted by Janene Pieters on Sunday, 13 September 2020 - 08:30 https://nltimes.nl/2020/09/13/mcdonalds-ditching-plastic-straws-paper