Read more: Every McDonald's Burger, Ranked Worst To Best Sustainability may be one possible reason for the switch -- but that doesn't seem likely, as the new straws are also made from plastic.

Fearless green crusader and fast food behemoth McDonald’s is keeping up the good fight against the environmental menace of … plastic straws. Yes, the chain is moving nationally to a ...

But you can't drink it properly with a regular straw. No sir, a regular straw just wouldn't do here, so McDonald's hired some aerospace and robotic engineers to redesign the straw to deliver the ...

Among them was Miles Pepper, co-founder of FinalStraw, a reusable, collapsible straw designed to replace single-use plastic straws. During his pitch, Pepper stated, "Plastic straws are going out ...

But Coke from a McDonald's is even better despite coming from ... A ban on single-use plastic straws was introduced in 2020. "We're working on packaging of any material which means it won't ...

— By Plasteurope.com correspondent — The UK and Ireland arm of fast-food giant McDonald’s is considering re-introducing ...