Drinking straw
The fast food giant switched from plastic straws last year.
“We see the effects of plastic pollution every day on the beaches."
As an ageing punk, I find it sad and absurd that we’ve learnt so little in the last 40 years.
'There’s worse shit going on in the world than a bit of trouble sucking up a milkshake!'
Everyone understands that plastic is bad, but no one has realised that the same chemicals used in single-use plastics (like straws) are also used in receipts.
Sydney resident Harriet Spark knew something had to be done when she came a cross an octopus clutching plastic straws in her local bay of Manly Cove. She started Operation Straw, which brings together regular beachgoers, or in this case "strawklers", who scour the seabed looking for discarded straws, bag and finishing lines.
While plastic pollution continues to fuel public anger, another more menacing threat to all life on earth brews overhead – climate change
McDonalds has become the latest company to opt out of providing the single-use product. Restaurants in the UK and Ireland will replace plastic with paper straws from September.
The chain uses 1.8 million straws a day in the UK.