Now fast food companies make you litter (who knew how much they control us???)

[The Straight Story]

Food shops 'must fight litter'

Anti-litter campaigners have called on the fast food industry to take more responsibility for the food and packaging it sells as takeaways.

A Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) survey found 25% of English streets littered with fast food rubbish, up from 16% in 2002.

Biggest fast food chain MacDonald's accounted for most of the litter, with unbranded wrappings from local fish and chip or kebab shops in second place.

KBT wants retailers to make it easier to dispose of litter responsibly.

Surveyors for the organisation spent two days observing fast food litter in 10 locations across England.

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"McDonald's, the local chip shop, Greggs, KFC and Subway need to do more to discourage littering by their customers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7825339.stm

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Remember, this is the same "food police" that wants to invade people's homes

to "teach them" how not to waste food.
Maybe Mcdonald's can put their foodintot hose containers of crap they sell at Wal-Mart, the ones you can't open with a bowie knife.

[Tempest]

2. Sounds reasonable

"We want all fast food chains to reduce unnecessary packaging and make it easier for customers to do the right thing," he said.

How can anyone complain about that?


And it helps the fast food companies:

Meanwhile, academic research suggests there is clear evidence seeing litter displaying a company's brand can negatively affect the public's perception of that brand.

Prof Parker said: "There is, therefore, a good commercial reason why fast food operators should take more of an interest in what happens to their packaging once it leaves their premises."

[SheilaT]

3. Somehow I find it hard to blame

the fast food companies for the fact that some people are pigs and just dump the wrappings anywhere.

[sutz12]

4. I have an easy solution...

I never eat that crap. :shrug:

[Mugweed]

6. To suggest that those dumb enough to eat fast food

are also dumb enough to litter would be completely inappropriate. Funny how we never see large amounts of technical journals or chemical abstracts littering the highways and byways.

[ThomWV]

5. It is 12 miles in either direction from my house to the closest McDonalds, but their fuckin' wrapper

There cups, paper bags, and burger wrappers litter our road every time I walk up and down it. Closest McDonalds to the east is 12 miles away, closest one to the west is the same. You can't go north or south from here without having to do some real Deliverance sort of hiking.

[customerserviceguy]

7. We had a solution in Washington State

we charged a tax of .015 percent (yes, that's .00015) of the gross income of manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of certain products which contribute to the litter problem in that state. It was imposed back in the 1970's and provides funds for cleanup activities.

[ejpoeta]

8. they do have garbage cans inside and outside of their establishments.

so, how do they 'make' you litter?