Chip fat to oil McDonald's delivery chain
In a bid to boost its green credentials and reduce its carbon footprint, McDonald’s is to run its UK fleet of delivery vehicles largely on old chip fat.
Starting with 45 lorries based at its UK headquarters in Hampshire, the fast food chain plans to convert all 155 of its delivery vehicles to run on a green fuel consisting of 85 per cent recycled cooking oil and 15 per cent rapeseed oil.
Nine hundred restaurants across the UK will supply their spent cooking oil for use as delivery fuel, reducing the company’s annual carbon emissions by an estimated 1,675 tonnes – the equivalent of taking 2,424 family cars off the road.
September 2007
Starting with 45 lorries based at its UK headquarters in Hampshire, the fast food chain plans to convert all 155 of its delivery vehicles to run on a green fuel consisting of 85 per cent recycled cooking oil and 15 per cent rapeseed oil.
Nine hundred restaurants across the UK will supply their spent cooking oil for use as delivery fuel, reducing the company’s annual carbon emissions by an estimated 1,675 tonnes – the equivalent of taking 2,424 family cars off the road.
September 2007
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