McDonald's have announced a bold move to ban an item in all their UK restaurants- leaving customers of the global food franchise fuming . The junk food giant will be ditching all plastic cutlery and instead replacing it with paper alternatives, reports the Liverpool Echo.
The new environmentally conscious cutlery is made from renewable, FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified pressed-paper and will be replacing the axed plastic utensils across the entirety of the nations McDonald's sites. Nina Prichard, head of sustainable and ethical sourcing at McDonald's claims the move is to cut down on waste and further increase their use of sustainable materials.
She said: "As a business, we're committed to taking action on packaging and waste and increasing our use of sustainable materials. We're pleased to announce another step forward in eliminating single-use plastics and it's great to be switching our famous McFlurry spoons to this new paper-based material."
