McDonald's is a major sponsor of the Tidy Britain Group, which is currently promoting a National Spring Clean 18-27 April. McDonald's has sponsored the leaflet. The Tidy Britain Group is a supporter of the Going For Green Initiative.And as we all know, McDonald's is a major contributor to the litter
problem. In their leaflet they give us some 'great ideas', one of which is to hold a competition to collect the most litter: we 'will be surprised at what we find'. One idea they do not give us is to collect McWaste (on a street corner near you) and send it the McPartiallyFunded FREEPOST address below.
NATIONAL SPRING CLEAN
FREEPOST
MANCHESTER M1 9AZ
Collect everything you see around and send it off in parcels and envelopes as large or as small as you need (the more numbers of parcels the better) together with a small note saying exactly where you found it. Don't cheat by emptying waste bins.
Print out this address on envelope address labels, give them out to as many people as possible and get the Tidy Britain Group to do something practical about the litter of one of their major sponsors. (Incidentally, notice this organisation used to be called the Keep Britain Tidy Group, until it dawned on them that because of people like McDonald's Britain was not in a tidy state in which to be kept).
Even one cup, straw, polystyrene tray or paper bag in an envelope will
help. If you can get an idea of how many you send, or know of that are
sent, post the score on the GSN, we can press release it or something.
Enter all the competitions on the packaging you find: 'no purchase
required'.
By the way, Dave Morris (one of the McLibel Two) was in Edinburgh last week and so on Saturday 22nd Feb there was a major demo ouside the main
McDonald's on Princes Street invlving around 90 people, about 30 of which went and eat healthy food in the otherwise deserted store. They didn't give us too much hassle until our Ronald McDonald clown clone arrived with his organic flapjacks. The manager took particular exception to this and so we were asked to leave one by one. When the police asked whether we had bought our apples, oranges, humus sandwiches etc.. from McD's we had to say that clearly not because obviously something as healthy and wholseome as what we were eating would not usually be found within a ten metre radious of a McDonald's.
The thrust of the demo was Dave Morris reading out his 'libelous'
statements in full view of the public!
