McDonald’s scraps composting program...food won’t decompose

[tomm2thumbs]

McDonald's announced this morning that it would discontinue plans for a worldwide composting initiative after scientists confirmed that no item on the McDonald's menu is compostable.*

The plan to keep food waste -- more than 1.5 billion tons a month -- out of landfills would have been the largest composting program in the world, with bright green composting bins at all the 31,000-plus restaurants around the world. But McDonald's halted the plan after scientists at the University of California-Berkeley discovered that none of the items on the McDonald's menu would compost in the next 500 years, nor would any start breaking down for an estimated 1,000 years, the projected life span of a plastic bag.

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A source at Greenpeace says today's announcement is "extremely disturbing." The group plans to launch a campaign to get McDonald's to overhaul its menu.

link
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-01-mcdonalds-scraps-composting-program-food-decompose/

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* I'm shocked I tell you, shocked...and on April 1st of all days! *

[flvegan]

1. "Food" right?

Think again.

[Edweird]

6. I think the quotation marks should be legally required

if they used that word to refer to their product.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Yes, indeedy

to learn this news on this of all days...

[kestrel91316]

3. Hahahahaha, best April Fool's joke EVAH!!!!

[aSpeckofDust]

4. Read the article to the end. This is a good one.

:dilemma:

[zbdent]

5. Didn't someone construct a three story home entirely out of

a McDonalds "liquid" and some rebar?

[azmouse]

7. The best jokes are the ones that don't stray far from the truth.

This one is pretty good.

[tomm2thumbs]

8. who knows, it might just be true? check back in 500 years and see

[endless october]

9. i enjoy McDonalds from time to time.

my local one is pretty decent.

[tammywammy]

10. Seriously people, it's April Fools Day

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-01-april-fools-day-suckas

April Fools’ Day, suckas!

http://www.grist.org/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=&w=307

[kimmerspixelated]

11. HAHAHA That's twice today, I've been duped.

ROFL!

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Please tell me this is onion satire.

[elocs]

13. Nice try, no cigar. This story was posted here at 10:30 this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8067368

[The_Commonist]

14. For those who may have missed this...

...from a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/mcdonalds-happy-meals-invincible.php

[tomm2thumbs]

15. If it lasts a year in the open, who knows!? Great experiment!

(wondering if the Pharaohs may have been stuffed with Big Macs before being placed in their pyramids)