McDonald's Restaurants in three large UK towns are to experiment with a new environmentally friendly plan designed to save fuel and take care of the waste from these restaurants each day.
Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley will take part in the initiative which is funded by McDonald's. Refuse from the restaurants will be collected, and turned into electricity, heat at the purpose built energy recovery facility in Sheffield. The energy recovered will be used to heat and light local buildings.
Veolia energy recovery Facilty.
This state of the art facility
can recovery
energy from waste material
that cannot be recycled.
Each of the three restaurants currently sends around 10 metric tonnes of waste food and other materials to landfill sites each year. The amount of energy recovered will provide heating for 130 local buildings including sports facilities, town halls and hospitals.
There are plans to extend this scheme to other areas of the UK and eventually other parts of the world.
The eleven restaurants involved in this scheme are trying out solar panels, and a wind powered generator. Cardboard recycling is also being initiated.
So, McDonald's is doing its bit when it comes to cutting carbon emissions and slowing down climate change.
