McDonald’s Adult Happy Meals

Wait what - we can get adult happy meal toys and they’re friends ones?!

This is good news indeed! Thanks OP!

Exactly! I always find it interesting how quick people are to call out the individual when it comes to environmental issues such as plastic yet miss the point how the government and big polluting countries do f all to help the situation. Instead we have have posters berating those who want a small plastic toy or use the wrong straw etc missing the point that things like paying for plastic bags is just a way for the government to say they are doing something when they are just passing the cost to consumers.

Of course we all have a part to play to help the environment and small things add up but the focus on one another when it should be all of us holding the government accountable and instead we are too busy criticising the person nearest .

They will only be in "landfill or floating in the sea" if people put them there.
I can't speak for others but I don't put plastic products in landfill or the sea.
People always say that about plastic products but never expensive watches, jewellery, wholesome wooden toys etc.
Where do they go when people don't want them anymore?

Well we are specifically asked to put small electronics out for this very purpose... its not just something I "assume" they do with the stuff chucked away

Several years ago I wrote to them suggesting they do happy meals designed for adults containing useful things like a little pack of tissues, or a sewing kit, or some cotton buds, or a mini notebook.

You want free cotton buds in your happy meal?! 🤢

It's funny isn't it that we assume that is what happens - yet there appears to be no facilities employing people to do this fiddly work. Where is it all happening?

I don't think it is happening to be honest. Not in England anyway.

It's funny isn't it that we assume that is what happens - yet there appears to be no facilities employing people to do this fiddly work. Where is it all happening?

I don't think it is happening to be honest. Not in England anyway.

Anything electronic here is collected to be stripped of useful parts and recycled

Yes but the type of stuff that poster listed (in another comment) is definitely not what charity shops want.

Because stuff falls, gets dropped, lost etc

And waste companies are unscrupulous...

The charity is a form of recycling and the dump is recycling in the specific bins but not everything can be. I have shoes in the car at the moment, the shoe bins are full locally, but thats the same for any product.

Those are quite bizarre suggestions for freebies 😂

Be;ieve me |If it were possible I would but these things are mixed material or weird squishy soft plastic.

There is no recycling centre I know of that will recycle these items: novelty erasers, miniature hard plastic footballs, plastic cars with metal screws, broken robots, stretchy soft chickens, monsters, eyeballs, slugs, foam footballs, foam stress balls, light wands, foam and string plastic children rackets.

The list of unrecyclable plastic tat goes on and on and on.

However - if there is a way to dispose this stuff properly to prevent landfill I'm all ears.

Don't give it to a charity shop then 🙄
Or the "dump".
Recycle it.

The Lego that fell of a ship is quite sought after. There's books written about it.
The famous floating ducks were used by scientists to study sea movements.
(I'm not sure if the ducks are still floating out there).
Those were accidents though - ending up in the sea. It wasn't meant to happen.
But there's zero reason for people to be putting plastic in the sea deliberately so don't understand why does much ends up there.

Several years ago I wrote to them suggesting they do happy meals designed for adults containing useful things like a little pack of tissues, or a sewing kit, or some cotton buds, or a mini notebook.

You want free cotton buds in your happy meal?! 🤢

On the rare occasions I go to McDonald’s I always have a happy meal because I don’t want massive portions. I know quite a few people who do this. I always select ‘no toy’.

Several years ago I wrote to them suggesting they do happy meals designed for adults containing useful things like a little pack of tissues, or a sewing kit, or some cotton buds, or a mini notebook.
I got a fairly frosty message back saying they never take people’s suggestions. 🤷🏼‍♀️
I’m guessing it’s because they don’t want people saying they should be paid a cut of the profits for their idea. I wasn’t bothered about getting any credit, it would just be nice to have a happy meal with small portions, marketed at me as an adult. Appreciate this is a tiny ridiculous non-issue. 😊

I know. It's just a load of old plastic crap. I wish it didn't exist.

I guess I'll take it to be burned then. Lord knows what that stuff burning sends up into the atmosphere 😬

Where I live general rubbish is burned for electricity rather than landfill.
Unfortunately though I don't think you get to choose what your local council does.
Definitely DO NOT take any of what you listed to a charity shop. They don't want things like that.