I picked up a Burger King Whopper on the way home today. It is Friday, I can splurge. 
Every time I am at a fast food joint I am astounded by the sheer waste and potential destruction to the environment.
No, I am not talking about their french fries, which can sit in a landfill and not look any different for a hundred years, but their sheer waste of materials.
Ever stand in a BK or MAC establishment and watch the burgers slide into place? They sit still for a second and then are picked up and placed in a paper envelope. Then they are placed in a cardboard box. Then the entire burger and it’s little envelope and cardboard house is placed inside a paper sack. The MBA graduate working behind the counter turns and hands it to me, whereupon I remove the Whopper from the bag, the house and the envelope and toss them all away. That cute little cardboard box has a useful working life of perhaps 11 second! Eleven seconds and then it is off to the landfill. Maybe to a recycling plant, but I do not think paper with food stains can be recycled. Not sure.
Why all the paper?

Why not wrap the burger in on piece of payer and then put a sticker on top to hold the paper together. I don’t need a little hut for my burger! I don’t even need a paper sack! Oh, and when you stick napkins in the bag, I really don’t need a hundred. Five will do nicely.
Corporations claim they want to go green. Bullshit. (Unless they are talking about their soggy onion rings.) We did not have all this packaging material when I was a kid. Why do we need it now?
Starbucks is the worse! Yeah, they are all this new age green company yet when I buy a bag of coffee beans, and a couple of cups of coffee, I get a cardboard drink carrier, a paper sack for the beans, and of course, the coffee cup, plastic lid, red stopper and brown sleeve.
Even when I buy just the bag of beans, they put it inside a paper sack. Why? The beans are likely to fight their way out of their original bag and then all that stands between their freedom is the paper sack? The beans are already inside a bag! Why put it in another bigger one????
I blame the corporations first, because they are greedy bastards. If a comet was hurling toward Earth for total annihilation they would come out with Comet Annihilation cups and sacks, and make more money right up to the second the fireball hit. They have no interest in being green unless it somehow gets them money.
But secondly, I blame us. You and me and yeah, you over there! Why do we allow this?
I did try once asking for my whopper to not be placed in a cardboard house. The entire BK crew stared at me like deer in headlights. They could not accommodate me. Against the Burger Kind policy.
I say we plan a flash mob where on one particular day everyone goes into Burger King and demand their Whopper de-housed! No cardboard box! Just wrap it in paper.
Of course, that brings up the obesity problem……as their are 42,000 calories in the Whopper. Hell, breathing the air in the restaurant you can consume a couple of hundred calories.
But that’s a rant for another day.
My burger is cold. Oh well.
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