Wow, after the Big Mac turns the Big 40 it celebrated in style, with a brand new outfit.
So out with the old and in with the new as McDonald’s switches the packaging of the Big Mac to a more “food focused” style. By food focus, McDonald’s’ put the ingredients of the burger on the box. Just in case there were suspicions, they call it ’storytelling.’
A head of lettuce, a onion, a stack of cheese slices, its mystery sauce and smack on top 100% beef.
But this “fresh factor” got me to thinking are the packaging of these boxes really eco fresh and friendly ?
There are over 100 McDonald’s in the Chicago area, over 4,000 when you include the greater Chicago area, where many Americans “fuel up” and go. Only recently, in 1992 did McDonald’s convert much of their menu’s packaging to being made of recycled materials. Still however, all of that packaging, inside packaging with more packaging is only used for seconds before it is discarded. A waste?
Think about the litter on the streets, what fills up city garbage cans and alleyways–McDonald’s trash is everywhere.
While I couldn’t find how much trash a single McDonald’s generates in one day I could find this:
the US sells 150 million Big Mac’s in one year.
That’s 150 million of those paper holders each Mac comes in.
divide that by the 50 states, that’s approximately million sold every year in each state.
In Chicago there are roughly 100 Mcd’s, so that’s (and this is a very rough estimate)
That’s 3 thousand Big Mac containers discarded in Chicago. Thats a lot of TRAHSH
