That's interesting that you can't buy unwrapped soaps locally. I'll admit that when we first arrived in South Australia nearly 11 years ago, they were way behind the UK with regards to organic and natural products, but they've made huge strides in this. Health food and zero waste shops are stringing up everywhere, even in our low class suburbs. The supermarkets are getting used to us turning up with our reusable produce bags.
I’m sure we used to have no problems with McDonald's when we asked them not to add the toys to the happy meals, back in the UK. They sometimes would run out, so it's not as of it's an immovable item. I don't see why there should be issues with them not adding it. It's ridiculous. Fingers crossed on some results there. It annoys me that some of our supermarkets here do these promotional giveaways of little toys or stickers. It's never long before you start flinging them as litter. Surely it's unnecessary to be promoting a supermarket that people are going to be shopping at whether they did the giveaways or not. People need to buy groceries and if they prefer the farmers markets and buying locally instead, you certainly aren't going to entice them back with wastefulness.
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It is quite rare to see unwrapped soaps here now.
For McDonalds I believe they have promotional targets for the toys. I suspect the film companies pay for the toys and pay McDonalds many millions of dollars to distribute certain volumes of their promo meals and toys.
So reducing the number of toys given out would likely impact the size of the promotional deals.
Ah yes, money always seems to come into play somewhere.
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