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There are 24 questions about “Recycling” in the “How do you operate?” topic.
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- 16. What happens to all of the rubbish that goes in your bins? Is any of it recycled?
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McDonald’s is unable to recycle any customer rubbish due to food and drink residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills in the UK. Trials are taking place around this issue, though, and the company is hoping to find a solution soon. McDonald’s does recycle cardboard waste, which represents 25 percent of a restaurant’s total waste. And the company is currently exploring other opportunities to divert waste from landfill, including the generation of green electricity from waste.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 17. do you recycle any of the packaging you use???
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Yes, the large majority of McDonald’s restaurants in the UK currently recycle all their cardboard waste. It is the company’s aim to have all restaurants recycling cardboard waste by the end of 2006 and the company is also currently undertaking trials to introduce recycling of customer packaging waste in restaurants. This poses some challenges due to food residues on the packaging that prevent the packaging from being recycled at standard recycling mills.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 18. Would it not be better for the enviroment if you used plates for customers who are sitting in?
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McDonald’s utilises disposable packaging for all food purchases, be they eat-in or take away for reasons of speed and efficiency. A typical restaurant in London’s West End may serve between 700 to 800 customers in one hour. McDonald’s customers expect to receive good, hot food, quickly, and as such it is not operationally practicable to use plates in restaurants for sit in customers.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 19. You keep being asked whether you recycle anything and you reply that your packing is made from recycled paper where possible. However, that is NOT answering the question: Do you recycle used packaging? Most of it just seems to go in the bin.
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At the moment McDonald’s doesn't recycle used packaging as this poses some challenges due to left over food residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills. However the company is currently running trials to introduce customer packaging waste recycling in restaurants and is also exploring other opportunities, including the generation of green electricity from waste. The large majority of McDonald’s restaurants in the UK do currently recycle all their cardboard waste and used cooking oil and McDonald’s aims to have all company restaurants recycling cardboard waste by the end of 2006.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 20. What percentage of your waste ends up in land fill, do you compost and how much of the total packaging consumption gets recycled?
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The large majority of McDonald’s restaurants in the UK currently recycle all their cardboard waste and used cooking oil which represents around a quarter of the total restaurant waste produced. McDonald’s aims to have all company restaurants recycling cardboard waste by the end of 2006 and is also currently running trials to introduce customer packaging waste recycling in restaurants. This poses some challenges due to left over food residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills. However, McDonald’s is also exploring other opportunities, including the generation of green electricity from waste.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 21. Is your packaging recyclable ?
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McDonald’s is unable to recycle any customer rubbish due to food and drink residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills in the UK. Trials are taking place around this issue, though, and the company is hoping to find a solution soon. McDonald’s does recycle cardboard waste, which represents 25 percent of a restaurant’s total waste. And the company is currently exploring other opportunities to divert waste from landfill, including the generation of green electricity from waste.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 22. Do you recycle all your food packaging that goes into the bin, or does it go to landfill or the incinerator?
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McDonald’s is currently running a waste auditing programme and is introducing recycling trials for customer packaging waste in restaurants. This poses some challenges due to left over food residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills, however McDonald’s is also exploring other opportunities, including the generation of green electricity from waste. The large majority of McDonald’s restaurants in the UK currently recycle all their cardboard waste and used cooking oil which represents around a quarter of the total restaurant waste produced.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 23. do you make any recycling effort? if not, why not- given the quantity of paper/ card you get through.
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Yes. McDonald’s recycles approximately a quarter of all waste produced at most restaurants through the separation of cardboard and used cooking oil. The company is currently running a waste auditing programme and is introducing recycling trials for customer packaging waste in restaurants. This poses some challenges due to left over food residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills, however McDonald’s is also exploring other opportunities, including the generation of green electricity from waste.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 24. do you run a recycling programme
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Yes. McDonald’s recycles approximately a quarter of all waste produced at most restaurants through the separation of cardboard and used cooking oil. The company is currently running a waste auditing programme and is introducing recycling trials for customer packaging waste in restaurants. This poses some challenges due to left over food residues on the packaging that prevent it from being recycled at standard recycling mills, however McDonald’s is also exploring other opportunities, including the generation of green electricity from waste.
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