Most people can probably remember the days when McDonald’s products came packaged in polystyrene. As public awareness of polystyrene’s damage on the environment grew, so did the pressure for McDonald’s to stop using the material more commonly known as Styrofoam. McDonald’s finally realized that the public, and the planet, deserved a more environmentally friendly packaging material for their food products and discontinued the use of polystyrene. That was several years ago, and now McDonald’s has taken a new initiative in making their environmental impact an example for others to follow as they proudly unveiled “The Energy-Friendly McDonald’s.”

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