McDonalds Thinking about Printing Car Number Plates on Food Bags
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Mcdonalds are considering printing customers car number plates on their orders to help prevent littering where people might just throw their waste packaging out of the car window onto the road
It sounds good in principle as i have seen a lot of rubbish bags from not just Mcdonalds but other fast food retailers also discarded on the roads and pathways sometimes
But besides possibly contravening data protection it also only targets car drivers, what about people that collect takeaways on foot ?
Also you might get some spiteful people taking rubbish from bins and throwing it on the road to deliberately have them prosecuted via their number plate print on the packaging
I think they need to revaluate the idea before finding it flawed
www.mirror.co.uk/money/mcdonalds-start-printing-licence-plate-28585652
Not sure how this would work in practice at a busy drive Thru, there , but in theory a good idea ,however this really makes just the owner of the vehicle responsible , and not necessarily the person littering.
Mango4 well the driver shouldn't hang around with people who litter says a lot about them the company they keep. no one i know litters or not infront of me, theres no need i would say something.
this is an idea being touted to lower rubbish, it's a good idea. have you not seen it when the mam or dad throws the rubbish out in front of kids. bad example being set.
Free publicity for McDonalds. End of. No other marketing business would come up with an impossible to reinforce laws like this.
Totally ridiculous idea - the registration number on a discarded paper bag would never be accepted as sole grounds for prosecution for littering by CPS.
(nevertheless a bit of free advertising for McDonald's)
They would need to put the registration numbers on all products that was bought, not just the bag as I've seen a lot of rubbish lying on the roads which have quite clearly been lobbed from a passing car, then there's the others who open their car doors and just leave the rubbish on the kerbside, so as much as it sounds good in theory, I can't see it working.
It might help a few people decide to be more careful with the waste, but those that dont care will still just act the same. Unless they started banning regular offenders, that might be more useful.
Certainly a good idea but who’s going to police the litter louts. Maybe it could be part of a traffic wardens job.
PhilipMarc maybe the local councils could chase up the number plates and fine these people.
Pjran The Council Tax already feel like fines we all have to pay because most services where the money goes is either poorly done or not at all. I'll dare say it, Council Tax is a legal scam.
The whole system needs to be reformed because it's beyond broken. 
There is no way anyone will ever stop people going to McDonald’s. To be honest - they make enough profits every year to pay each location to have extra litter pickers. But it’s not just McDonald’s trash we see - I see everything from beer cans to plastic toy wrappers to a corner sofa with the corner but still sticking up on a canal bank !
Its the larger items of furniture etc being dumped that really annoys me. Sadly though as its getting more expensive and difficult to arrange for the correct disposal of larger goods I am not surprised people just dump them. As council have to cut back more and more then it will only get worse
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