McDonald's customers have branded a new change introduced to all UK restaurants as 'criminal'.
The fast food restaurant is axing plastic cutlery in favour of paper-based spoons in a bid to eliminate 858 metric tonnes of plastic each year. The new cutlery is made from renewable, FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified pressed-paper and is fully recyclable and compostable, McDonald’s said.
It comes after the chain already switched to the paper-based alternatives across restaurants in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. McDonald’s said it will now gradually roll out the new cutlery across England and Wales from Tuesday (November 8) as it phases out the plastic items.
