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Does a McDonald’s bag stop being a bag once you fold it into a crane?

99.9% of America throws away the fast food paper bag.

It’s paper. Good paper. Your burger came in its own wrapper, and your fries came in their own carton, so the bag never touched a thing you ate. It carried the packages from the counter to your table. Now the original function of the bag ended once you sat down.

So I folded mine into a crane at the McDonald’s next to the Wrigley Building. Ripped it square, kept the arches inside the square, and folded the crane I know how to fold. Then I set it on the garbage can outside and squatted behind that can for 10 minutes getting the…

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