McDonald’s Singapore dumps plastic cutlery

The brand will start using wooden utensils instead.

McDonald’s Singapore has announced that it has stopped using plastic cutlery in its restaurants.

According to a statement by the company, it will use wooden utensils made from natural birch wood instead.

The brand said that by switching to wooden cutlery, it is saving an average of 125,000kg of plastic utensils annually. This is in addition to efforts like strawless lids that helped be brand save 19 million pieces of plastic straws a year.