McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys to go Green By 2025
September 23, 2021 11:49AM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO – FEBRUARY 09: A sign stands outside of a McDonald’s restaurant February 9, 2009 in San Francisco, California. Fast food chain restaurant McDonald’s reported a 7.1 percent increase in same store sales for January as people look towards cheaper food alternatives in the weakening economy. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
McDonald’s is phasing out the plastic toys in their Happy Meals.
They announced they will drastically reduce the plastic in their meals by 2025.
They’ve also pledged to have every toy made from renewable, recycled, or certified materials.
They said in a statement, “Making our toys out of renewable, recycled, or certified materials will result in about a 90% reduction of fossil fuel-based plastic in Happy Meal toys, from a baseline of 2018. For perspective, that’s more or less the size of the entire population of Washington, DC, eliminating plastics from their lives for a year.”
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