Plastic toys contain lead, too By SHARON CHEN , GUEST COLUMNIST Dec 13, 2007 I recently made an appointment to take my 15-month-old son Leo to his pediatrician's office for a blood- lead-level test.

McDonald’s plans to “drastically” reduce the plastic in its Happy Meal toys worldwide by 2025. ... A cardboard McDonald’s Happy Meal toy is shown with a Happy Meal box on Sept. 20, 2021.

McDonald's, which has been serving Happy Meals since 1979, said that its new plan to make toys out of renewable materials will reduce fossil fuel-based plastic in its toys by 90%.

Hasbro, the US-based manufacturer of popular toy lines like Littlest Pet Shop, Marvel, and other Disney-branded products, announced Tuesday that it will start phasing out plastic packaging from ...

How to talk to kids about Christmas — and plastic toys; Similarly, he said, it's reasonable to expect that cardboard boxes can be recycled, but that's not the case if they've been coated in plastic.