My son Frank (not his real name) delights in the prize that comes with his Happy Meal like most kids his age. He gets McDonald’s a few times per month and it’s always a struggle to get him to finish eating before he rips open the plastic bag to get to the much-coveted prize. Usually, a cheap toy that holds his interest for hours or minutes before it is put into his closet in a toy bin where it awaits donation. Do people actually buy this sort of junk at a second-hand store? Over the last few years, we have accumulated some cups from McDonald’s that the kids like to use. I was unloading the dishwasher and turned one of the aforementioned cups over to see what kind of plastic number it was. It was a 7! All of them are plastic number 7! You really shouldn’t eat or drink out of anything plastic but the least stable plastic is classified as 7 and you should choose any plastic before you choose that one. It’s the worst of the worst. Plastic number 7 is a slurry of crap plastic that doesn’t really fit into any other number of plastic. I'll talk more about the different plastics in upcoming posts. I had an ice cream bucket sitting in the sink. What number is that? I flipped it over to reveal a 5. The ice cream bucket is made out of higher quality plastic than a cup made for children?!?!? It's a bad idea to eat or drink out of plastic but even worse is to have something acidic come into contact with it or heat it. I wonder how many times I’ve given Frank a nice acidic drink in his toxic plastic cup? Orange juice or apple juice so many times. It made me feel sick thinking about all the times he has drunk out of these cups. If you have plastic cups you should recycle them and only use glass, ceramic, or stainless steel. Thanks for the cup of crap McDonald’s, you need to do better.
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