Boxing day.
We hit Wal-Mart to pick up a new DVD player since ours is on the downhill side of it's life. Peanut (youngest daughter) was tired and cranky. The wife suggested I hit the onsite McDonalds for a small fry in order to keep her occupied while we waited in line for the checkout. Also to keep me occupied I think. So I hit McDonalds, ordered the small fry, and waited. Everything cool so far.
"Here or to go?"
"To go"
"Great! Here you are, have a nice day"
The kid behind the counter hands me a clear plastic bag with my order in it. A clear PLASTIC bag...10 times the size of a small fry. WTF is this? Never once in my life have I received a plastic bag from McDonalds, they've always been paper bags. Nice, recyclable, paper bags. I can maybe go out on a limb here and think, "ok, they're probably using biodegradable palm oil bags?" A corporation like McDonalds would surely overlook the huge destruction caused by palm oil plantations in order to attempt to make themselves look better. If that was the case, they're failing.
I don't know though. I didn't look at the bag in any great detail to see if it was labeled as "made from recycled used heroin syringes" or anything like that.
I just checked the McDonalds website. According to their site, they only use recycled paper bags for carry out. Hmm, maybe somebody forgot to tell this specific location.
Anybody have any answers for me here? Any possibilities as to why this specific McDonalds location is using plastic carry out bags?
wtf?
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