Sustainability
Sustainability
At McDonald’s we want the best for our environment. We share Walsall Council’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis and have committed to delivering net zero carbon emissions by 2040 – this drive-thru has been designed with this goal in mind.
To us that means constantly challenging ourselves to find ways in which we can use our scale and our people, to influence and drive change. By rethinking, reducing, and recycling, we’re minimising the impact we have on the environment. We have developed a range of initiatives that ensure our restaurants promote sustainability both during construction and throughout operation.
To achieve this, we will include the following measures to make sure this new restaurant on Queslett Road is a sustainable development:
All the energy we purchase to run our restaurants comes from renewable wind and solar power.
We don’t waste cooking oil. Our entire UK delivery fleet runs on biodiesel with almost half of that biodiesel coming from our used cooking oil. It’s even made at a plant powered by some of our food waste. Using this biodiesel creates 6,900 fewer tonnes of CO2 than low sulphur diesel.
Since 2015, we’ve installed recycling units in over 1,000 of our UK restaurants, so it’s easier to separate your paper cups and plastics for recycling. Our paper cups are sent to specialist recycling centres in the UK who make different recycled products from the fibre and plastic lining.
Several of our new McDonald’s restaurants have 100% LED lighting – which uses 50% less energy than fluorescent lights. We’ve installed 120,000 across the UK.
Our new restaurants are built to use less power – from energy management systems that control our lights, heating and air conditioning, to energy-efficient kitchen equipment and motion sensitive lighting.
We’re always looking to reduce our water consumption in restaurants. Across 750 of our restaurants we’ve installed waterless urinals which helps us save 150 million litres of water every year.
You can discover more about McDonald’s commitment to the environment in our Plan for Change.
About McDonald’s
We have more than 1,400 restaurants in the UK and Ireland, employing over 130,000 people.
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