McDonald’s, I’m fed up with seeing your rubbish, strewn across our town centres, roads, lay-bys, and pretty much anywhere some of your customers can park, to off-load their rubbish after they've finished filling their bellies.

Most off this rubbish is in close proximity to your restaurants, usually no more than 5 -10 minutes’ drive away, and usually in the same locations, clearly identifiable with your trademark logo and brand titles. Wouldn’t it be community spirited, to pick up your rubbish, a bit like when diners eat inside a restaurant and staff clear their tables afterwards, ready for the next customer/s.

As you may be aware, our oceans are facing a plastic pollution crisis, and much of this rubbish, such as plastic coffee cup lids, plastic sauce dips, and even free plastic toys, is rubbish that has been dropped onto our streets and flushed into our oceans via storm drains.

As well the plastic pollution crisis, we also have a climate change crisis, with many councils and governments across the world declaring a climate change emergency. Plastic is a contributor to climate change, and everything we can do to help wildlife cope with rising temperatures should be a concern to us all. Especially making sure that we are not feeding toxic plastic to our ocean life.

Furthermore, as most of your rubbish, that's dropped willy-nilly, seems to be on our roadsides and laybys, this rubbish attracts starving wildlife, that ultimately get mown down by fast moving traffic, such as the deer who died last year, after getting a plastic bag on its head and wandering onto a road. I myself witnessed a roadkill hedgehog a couple of years ago, that was next to a squashed bag of McDonald’s rubbish. As you may well have heard, hedgehogs could become extinct by 2025!

If picking up your rubbish isn’t an option, maybe you should think about closing your drive-thrus? Of course, this doesn’t stop customers from taking the food away, but it would give them an incentive to eat in.