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McDonald’s straws and the policies of moral panic

6 August 2019

3:45 AM

6 August 2019

3:45 AM

McDonald’s has bowed to public pressure and replaced plastic straws that you can recycle, with paper straws that you can’t recycle and which have to be put into the general waste and burned.

How is this a victory for the environment?

Well it’s not, obviously. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore could have told you this a year ago.

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