MCDONALD’S fans are furious after the fast-food chain announced a major change to McFlurrys.
The company has announced that it will scrap the plastic spoons that come with its famous ice creams, according to a recent post on Facebook .
The post read: “That’s right, we’re cancelling plastic cutlery and replacing it with a new sustainable, paper-based material in all of our restaurants in the UK & Ireland.
“We’re doing this to remove over 850 tonnes of plastic from our supply chain a year, as part of our Plan for Change.”;
The new cutlery, made from pressed paper and compostable, will be rolled out in McDonald’s restaurants in England and Wales from today in a phased approach.
The original plastic spoon has been baffling customers for years, with its chunky, hollow design - but it served a purpose and allowed the ice cream to be mixed by a machine .
It’s unclear as to whether McDonald’s plans to mix Mcflurrys anymore with the move after one customer said: “Nothing worse than an unmixed McFlurry”;
Other customers aren’t happy with the move and many have posted their frustrations online.
One customer said on Facebook: “So first it’s soggy straws and now it’s also soggy cutlery!”;
“My friend’s spoon wouldn’t even pick up the ice cream,”; another said.
Another McFlurry fan said: “I’ll be keeping metal spoons in the car along with the metal straws as the paper ones are pointless!
“Ruins taste and don’t work after 2 mins!”;
However, one McFlurry fan said after using the new paper-based straws: “Had one yesterday with the new spoon”;
“Didn’t go soggy so why not wait to see for yourself before moaning about it”;
The move follows the switch being made in restaurants in Scotland and Ireland in the first half of the year.
It comes after it ditched plastic toys from happy meals , straws and stirrers in a bid to be more eco-friendly .
In 2019, McDonald’s also ditched plastic McFlurry lids , but it kept the plastic spoons at the time.
And a year earlier, it started phasing out plastic straws and replaced them with paper ones.
McDonald’s is not the only company to make switches to tackle eco-damaging practices.
Nestle replaced its Quality Street shiny wrappers with paper-based eco- friendly ones in October.
Bar two of the flavours, all the chocolates are now wrapped in a duller form of waxed, recyclable paper.
Meanwhile, a number of supermarkets have made efforts to help the environment.
In August, Aldi ditched the colour codes on milk packaging and Lidl made a similar change .
Coca-Cola has started rolling out new caps on its bottles to ensure they end up in recycling bins.
