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McDonald's China Put 4,000 Fry-Box Wireless Mice on Sale, Their Shells Partly Made From Old Happy Meal Toys
McDonald's China sold a limited run of red-and-yellow wireless mice shaped like a fries carton, with shells over 60% recycled plastic, after a campaign with Lenovo to turn discarded Happy Meal toys into electronics-grade material.
The mouse is the fries box you already know, scaled down to fit a palm, in red with a yellow top. IT之家 lists the hardware plainly: quiet buttons, a 380mAh battery, both a 2.4GHz receiver and Bluetooth, and three DPI settings you can switch between. It ships in a felt pouch that unfolds into a mousepad shaped like McDonald’s green serving tray.
Demand was there before the sale opened. ifeng Tech reported more than 6,000 people had already reserved one, for 4,000 mice in total, each drop opening at 10 a.m.
The plastic story started in June. Greenext described a World Cup campaign, “Score Another Goal for the Planet,” in which McDonald’s China and Lenovo set out to “give discarded Happy Meal toys a second life by integrating recycled toy plastics into Lenovo’s green supply chain.” McDonald’s collected and sorted the toys. Lenovo handled dismantling, material recovery and recycling them into electronics-grade plastic, aimed at “a limited-edition product inspired by McDonald’s iconic French fries.” The October sale reports don’t name Lenovo, so the line from those toys to this exact mouse runs through the June plan, not a statement on the box.
Here’s how its recycled share lines up against two mainstream mice that also sell on recycled plastic:
| McDonald’s fry-box mouse | Logitech Pebble Mouse 2 M350s | Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recycled plastic | Shell over 60% | At least 58% | Shell 20% recycled ocean plastic |
| Where the plastic came from | Old Happy Meal toys (per the June plan) | Not specified | Plastic recovered from the ocean |
| Power | 380mAh rechargeable | — | One AA battery |
| Connection | 2.4GHz receiver and Bluetooth | — | Bluetooth 4.0 or later |
Logitech’s figure comes from Engadget’s report on the Pebble 2 line; Microsoft’s comes from its own support page for the Ocean Plastic Mouse. A dash means the source we could reach didn’t say.
What nobody said: the sensor, the actual DPI numbers behind those three settings, which toys went in, or how many toys make one mouse. There’s no word of a sale outside China, and none of the reports says whether all 4,000 found buyers.
Expect more mice and keyboards wearing other companies’ logos. A mouse is cheap to make, small enough to ship in a pouch, and every brand with a recycling pledge needs something people will actually keep. The open question is whether any of them will say how much of the shell came from the thing they collected, rather than from recycled plastic in general.