I'm not a fan of junk food and especially highly processed food but the demonstration made in this article is clearly not a demonstration. This is just a fact t

I'm not a fan of junk food and especially highly processed food but the demonstration made in this article is clearly not a demonstration. This is just a fact that is difficult to degrade organic components without water, oxygen and some organisms like fungi, bacteria or earthworms. This could have been a better experiment if they used a real composting technique to evaluate the time to degrade and being transformed into compost. The McDonald's Happy Meal (without the packaging) can be crushed/mixed into small parts. A similar burger (made from fresh/untransformed food) could have been used as a comparison. As the composting takes some times (depending of the oxygen concentration, temperature or the biological activity), the Happy Meal and the reference could be split into 4 equal parts. Those 2*4 parts would have been put at different place inside an active compost (from bottom to top as the type of biological activity is different). Every 2 weeks (or every month depending of the activity level) a sample is taken to confirm the level of degradation. It's not full proof but that could already provide a ground for comparison. By the way, Is McDonald composting their unused food? or something else? we never know.