Two little girls who are lovely in Britain are bringing thousands of people together to sign a petition (请愿书) demanding that Burger King and McDonald’s stop giving away free plastic toys.

With the help of their mother, nine-year-old Ella and seven-year-old Caitlin started an online petition in order to persuade the fast food giants (巨头) to do away with the wasteful toys that come with Happy Meals and Junior Meals.

Since starting the petition, the youngsters have got over 350,000 signatures of their 500,000 goal, and the call to action has already received further support from adults and children.

“We’ve been learning all about the environment at school and the problem of plastic. It made us very sad to see how plastic harms wildlife and pollutes the ocean, and we want to change this,” reads the petition. “That’s why we want Burger King and McDonald’s to think of the environment and stop giving away plastic toys with their kids meals.”

“We like to go to eat at Burger King and McDonald’s, but children only play with the plastic toys for a few minutes before they get thrown away and harm animals and pollute the sea. We want anything they give us to be environmentally friendly so we can protect the planet for ourselves and for future generations,” they continued.

In addition to the girls making a convincing argument, the amount of signatures on the petition almost doubled after reporters with the BBC’s War on Plastic followed the young activists to the McDonald’s headquarters in order to present the petition.

Since the little girls’ story started being picked up by international news outlets, Burger King and McDonald’s have emailed statements to CNBC detailing their plans for making their free toys more environmentally friendly.

On the day Apple debuted the often-delayed white-colored iPhone 4, the company’s marketing department gave a nod to the product’s troubled history.

“Finally.” read the big headline Thursday above a picture of the white phone on the homepage of Apple.com.

The white model was supposed to ship alongside the black one at the iPhone 4’s launch (推出) last June. But design and manufacturing complications delayed the process by 10 months, catching Apple off guard, executives say.

As CNN reported last month, earlier test models of the white iPhone 4 produced unclear photos, especially when the flash(闪光灯) was used. Its whiteness confused the proximity sensor (距离传感器) , which detects when the phone is held next to someone’s head and turns off the touch screen to save battery life.

These problems weren’t present in older iPhones that came in white because they didn’t have flash photography; the proximity sensor was unaffected because the front side of previous models was black.

“We thought we were there a year ago, or less than that, when we launched the iPhone 4, and we weren’t,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s chief marketing executive, said in an interview. “It’s not as simple as making something white. There’s a lot more that goes into both the material science of it —how it holds up over time…but also in how it all works with the sensors. ”

Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White predicts that the white model could help drive sales of Apple’s phones. He says Apple could sell 1 million to 1.5 million every three months until the next iPhone model is unveiled, which is expected to be this fall.

Forty-five people were lined up at Apple’s flagship New York store Thursday morning to buy white iPhones, according to a CNN Money report.

As we become more involved with social media, it often seems that the gap between human connections is widening. But Rob Lawless has proved the opposite. Every day for the last six years, Lawless has made a point of sitting down to have an-hour-long face-to-face conversation with at least one stranger. And even in just one hour, they can reach a deep, satisfying place in their exchanges.

“When I graduated with my finance degree in 2013 and became a business analyst, I missed the feeling of familiarity I used to have with the people around me,” he said. He was hungry to meet people organically, not in the serious environment where there was always an agenda (议事日程). So in November of 2015, he decided to launch (发起) his 10KFriends project with the goal of using it to meet 10,000 new people.

Lawless devotes himself to the project. He says that after talking to the strangers, he can find out about their current life situation, their hobbies and so on. Sometimes, he feels like he has become their close friend. Seeing people’s smiles after the conversation, he thinks everything has paid off. Usually, the conversations are more random, such as simply talking about football matches or a newly shown film. But they can also be a place for Lawless and the strangers to become closer. He told GNN, “My conversations are more like two old friends talking about their old days and daily life.”

In the following months, Lawless will experience a road trip where he will meet strangers from all 50 states. Maybe he’ll even pick up a stranger or two hikers on the highway. If you want to learn more about Lawless’ project or participate in the project as one of his strangers, you can visit his website or Instagram page.