McDonalds Lights Up the Town
by McDonald’s is funding a project to turn waste materials and food scraps into heat and light for local areas.
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.
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Post CommentAnne Lyken-Garner
On November 25, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Really? I haven’t heard of this louie, but it will be good when it properly take off all over the UK
Nick Kenney
On November 25, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Applause for Mickie-Dee’s!!! I love ‘em!!
Hey Lizzie!!!!!!!!!!!! Sending ya hugs!!!!!
Darlene McFarlane
On November 25, 2007 at 5:08 pm
What a great idea! I hope this sets an example for other countries. It sounds like a great idea.
Judy Sheldon-Walker
On November 25, 2007 at 7:00 pm
MacDonald does believe in giving back. When my 12 year old grandson was born he only weighed 2 lbs. 7 oz., so he had to stay at the hospital. My daughter was able to stay free of charge in a Ronald MacDonald house near the hospital. I was truly touched by their generosity.
Thank you for sharing this article with us.
Lucy Lockett
On November 25, 2007 at 10:17 pm
They can be innovative in their approach sometimes.It is a good thing!
louie jerome
On November 26, 2007 at 4:21 am
They get a lot of bad press here for rubbish in town centres and less than healthy menus but they are certainly trying to improve things.
CHAN LEE PENG
On November 26, 2007 at 6:23 am
Very interesting article.
IcyCucky
On November 26, 2007 at 6:53 am
What a wonderful idea, I hope it will catch on in other countries, too.
C A Johnson
On November 27, 2007 at 3:40 pm
This is a very good article. I hope they do this in other countries too.
Ruby Hawk
On December 1, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Yes, McDonald has finely done something right. I hope they do the same in the US.
George Leard
On December 24, 2007 at 11:19 am
Hi,
This is great Energy Restoration news and i hope this is a microcosm of things to come for McDonald and other competitors who are generating similar quantities of garbage.
The future monetary savings should be interesting.
Regards
George Leard
edwardgrace999@verizon.net
Dee Huff
On April 30, 2008 at 11:17 am
This is such a good idea. I hope it spreads.
Unofre Pili
On April 30, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I wish all food chains all over the world would do the same.
Rich Leigh
On May 7, 2008 at 12:00 pm
An interesting piece of writing you’ve written there. I wasn’t aware of this but it definitely sounds like an extremely positive move forward.