Some shaver are not content to look around while the grown - ups sieve out the future of our planet . Two of them , 9 - year - old Ella and 7 - year - quondam Caitlin , have launch a petition onChange.orgrequesting that McDonald ’s and Burger King turn back giving out plastic miniature with their small fry ’s meals , Thrillistreports .
“ child only play with the plastic toys they give us for a few minutes before they get thrown away and harm brute and contaminate the sea , ” the British missy wrote on Change.org . “ We require anything they give us to be sustainable so we can protect the planet for us and for succeeding generations . ” The petition has almost 400,000 signatures so far , and their current destination is to reach 500,000 .
Last October , UK surround rector Thérèse Coffey also implored McDonald ’s to stop give out charge plate toy , intimate instead that they build up smartphone - friendly games to company the repast . At the clock time , a UK McDonald ’s spokesman receipt the grandness of reducing plastic waste and bring up their hope to switch to paper straws , but countered the assumption that the charge plate toy were only used for a few minutes , tellingThe Telegraphthat they “ allow many more fun - filled hours at home , too . ”
The fast food giant did learn theenvironmentaleffects of their toy last year and witness that they are voiceless to recycle , since they ’re invent from various types of charge card . As a result , McDonald ’s is researching more ground - favorable ways to make their toys . A Burger King representative toldThe Wall Street Journalthat it , too , is exploring “ alternative toy dog solution . ”
But according to Ella and Caitlin , “ It ’s not enough to make reusable plastic toys — big , rich society should n’t be making toys out of credit card at all . ” The youthful activists themselves recycle as much as they can , and even hang a post-horse in their window about save the major planet .
[ h / tThrillist ]
