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Why is McDonald's stopping using straws?
Posted: Jun 27, 2018 by: Samuel Dade (sdade20) on: 4 Dickens News Blog
McDonald's is one of the latest industries to stop using straws in the UK.
They say they use 1.8 million straws a day in the UK and 8.5 million straws every year and 17 million in 2 years. That's a lot! Most straws are made from a plastic called polypropylene and polystyrene, these take a very long time to break down, compose. Many end up in landfill and oceans.Blue Planet 2 has shown the damage that plastic can cause to animals. Waitrose says that they are going to remove all straws by September 2018. This is great news! Morrisons are not going to have any straws in the cafes and will be 'plastic free' by 2023.Restaurant Pizza Express decided to change its plastic straws to biogradable by summer 2018. There are also lots of coffee shops which are stopping plastic straws too.
I think getting rid of straws is a great idea because it will stop littering and the animals will not get hurt. I am looking forward to this.
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Croydon teacher
Jul 1, 2018
Like you, I look forward to it! Thanks for sharing these shocking statistics with us. |