McDonald’s Adult Happy Meals

Litter....yes I can see that problem.
Unfortunately as long as we have people who dump litter that's going to happen.
Landfill.... why isn't it being recycled?
This is what society needs to worry about - people being filthy and dumping their rubbish everywhere and poor recycling systems.
Not something that some people want to collect because they like it.

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.

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.

I never had a problem with the McDonalds meal toys, we’ve a collection from over the years, if people want to cut down on plastic I don’t think McDonalds toys are the big issue in the world!!!

You wouldnt know what the charity shop is going to end up doing with it. Do you know how difficult it is to get rid of tat, no one wants it. Ive got a car full of stuff waiting for the charity to say 'yes we're taking donations again', otherwise it just goes down the dump.

You cant really pick and choose a charity shop with any guarantee of what you think they're going to with it.

Lots of "older" toys are pretty valuable now

I don't think "stuff that accidentally fell off a ship" counts quite the same either

@ticktickticktickBOOM a lot of that Lego that is washed up is still usable and quite sought after.
Why are you going to donate to a charity shop that won't want them? Why not recycle them?

You can just buy a 9 nugget or big mac meal with no toy for cheaper. So people who pay for the toy likely want to keep it.

Well I have a 40 litre box full of plastic shit like like from when my child was growing up and getting given crap at birthday parties, as presents, picking up tat at boot fairs etc. I have no desire to keep it in my house till I die so it is all going to charity tomorrow - who will no doubt throw most of it in the bin - hence landfill.
If I do keep it in my house till I die (which is what the posters here who want plastic friends dolls say they are going to do) - someone else will put it in the bin when I am dead and gone. Either way it's going there at some point.

We still have lego washing up on the south coast from a container that fell off a ship 30 years ago. Plastic production and consumption produces waste - it doesn't matter how you dress it up.

So yes - whether you intend it or not - this plastic crap ends up in landfill and sea. So just don't buy it.

Im dont like mc Donald's but I am a burger king fan.
And will order a happy meal for myself.

That is weird that this posters mind went there, to adult nappies, when someone mentions adult happy meals. WTF? 😂

Awwwww. 😍 My DC remember their McDonalds parties with fondness too. I don't think they do them anymore.

@TenTenTenAgain

Ah yes , I remember going to mcdonalds for a cheeseburger and a cigarette with my mates when I was a teenager. It feels strange that you could do that.

Yes, I remember when you could go for a root beer and a puff on a JPS ciggie back in the mid 1980s. 😆

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Reading some of the Christmas threads it seems some people do spend £100s on random watches/jewellery as "thoughtful" gifts 😂
By the way...the resale market for toys made of plastic is huge. The fact I have almost 50 year old Lego that is still usable and compatible with new Lego is brilliant.
Plastic doesn't always mean bad because it actually does last a long time.

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?

I agree with you 100%.

These will all just be in landfill or floating in the sea within 10 years.
The worlds biggest consumer organisations need to be setting an example so that idiot adults that need a plastic toy to eat a burger start rethinking their pathetic self centered outlook on what they 'want'.

I can just see the headlines, " Profit driven business has money making idea", what a shocker

I always thought they should do a Grumpy Meal, for parents, @MrMainwaring - with a miniature of gin in it, or maybe a couple of Valium. There were times, when the boys were younger, that I could have done with that!

Yeah i think there is something wrong with you

Mcdonald's does Happy Meals for adults? Good grief! 😂

Wimpy?

GenZ for the 90s revival