food containers lying around countryside polluting every where much worse and dogends which are biogradable should these places be made to pay much for cleaning up?
2007-06-23 11:45:09 · 14 answers · asked by dr gollum 2 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
MacDonald's and many other companies selling fast food, pay a great deal of attention to 'litter'. You may have noticed when in town that your local Macdonalds have a number of trash cans right outside their restaurant on the sidewalk. These trash cans are paid for by Macdonalds.
In addition, in Oxford Street, here in London, as in many other main streets and shopping areas, many of the trash cans are actually sponsored by local businesses. Their company logo is on the trash can and that of the council.
MacDonald's do not make trash. It is we the people who make trash by dropping our litter in the streets and making our environment a trashy filled dump.
People must learn respect. If not, then on the spot fines for dropping litter must be enforced.
Adding an extra tax to the purchase price of a Big Mac will not stop people dropping litter in our streets. It will just make the purchase price of a Big Mac etc more difficult for the lower paid sector workers who rely upon MacDonalds and co. for their lunch break meal.
Edit: FredHH above is absolutely right. We the customers are the makers of trash on our streets, not the supplier, MacDonalds.
Edit 2: capdemonty is on to something. Rice paper cartons are the answer. The customer can eat the paper.
2007-06-24 04:26:07 · answer #1 · answered by Dragoner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I actually find that really stupid. McDonalds isn't doing the dumping, people are.
That's like buying a car and wrapping it around a tree, then blaming the car company, even though it was your careless driving.
Point is, McDonalds may make it, but it's people that dump it. You can't charge places like that extra just because some of their customers don't care enough to find a garbage bin, it's not the fast food places randomly dumping, it's individuals, and it's individuals that should pay for it.
If any fast food places helped clean up efforts by choice, they'd be saints, because that means they would care far more than the people they serve.
But again, blame society and individuals, not business.
2007-06-23 13:07:38 · answer #2 · answered by Luis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there should be a pollution tax. Extra charges for containers or wrapping, no extra if you bring your own reusable container. Women could carry larger purses to hold the containers. I think McDonalds still uses some type of foam container for their pancakes, i'm not sure because I aven't eaten there in years.
2007-06-24 04:50:19 · answer #3 · answered by lucy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not the fast food retailer's fault that the customers are slobs.
McDonalds supplies plenty of trash recepticals inside and outside.
What we need is for the slobs to quit tossing the trash on the ground.
There are litter laws with fines in every state of the US. What we need is for the police to get busy writing the tickets.
When the slobs have to pay $1000 and do 100 hours of community service picking up trash they might learn to quit tossing it on the ground.
2007-06-23 11:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If Macdonalds made an edible containers it would probably have more nutrition than what's inside the container.
2007-06-23 13:58:39 · answer #5 · answered by pat j 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately there are slobs in this world and they are not going away so yes Mc D's should be levied or change their packaging to biodegradable! I live near a Mc D's and the garbage is always on my front lawn and down the street! You can't police the slobs it's impossible so go after the suppliers of the trash!!
2007-06-23 12:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by Polar Molar 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes and the louts that throw them out of car windows should be fined and spend a week picking litter in the community.
2007-06-23 21:14:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no the idiots who drop their litter should be charged although the fast food places and supermarkets etc could do something to cut down on packaging and cartons.
2007-06-23 12:00:36 · answer #8 · answered by janemull 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very good yes i agree there rubbish ends up every where .But on another note i always bin my rubbish if every one was fined for dropping rubbish maybe that would help?
2007-06-23 20:01:28 · answer #9 · answered by Carol B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't the million planes in the sky, count.<
Kentucky fried chicken ,
and a Pizza hut.
2007-06-23 12:00:21 · answer #10 · answered by raybbies 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋