McDonald’s going green? We’re lovin’ it March 28, 2008
Posted by Meg Suggs in Supply Chain Visibility.Tags: biodiesel, cooking oil, green supply chain, McDonalds
trackback
It’s the end of March, and since this month always reminds me of green—probably because of St. Patrick’s Day and Spring—I thought I’d leave a fun green post.
According to this article on Green Supply Chain Network, McDonald’s UK reports that McDonald’s will be running its delivery fleet on 100% biodiesel that’s made from it’s own cooking oil. Now how’s THAT for creative conservation. The oil will be taken from 900 different McDonald’s restaurants and will be mixed in with pure rapeseed oil. The concoction will be 85% cooking oil and 15% rapeseed oil. The oil will then be used to fuel McDonald’s delivery vehicles.
What I find most interesting is that “the carbon saving of the move will be 1,675 tonnes annually when the national roll-out is completed—the equivelant of removing 2,424 family cars from the road each year.”
Mickey D’s, we salute you!
Ah, if only the US could be as “forward thinking” when it comes to the modern diesel motor and the acceptance of biodiesel (and other bio-fuels) in mass produced vehicles…. *sigh
BTW, didn’t you mean “GRAPESEED” oil….?
” The concoction wil be 85% cooking oil and 15% rapeseed oil.”
The US may not yet be “forward thinking,” but hopefully we’ll get there some day.
Oh, and yes, believe it or not, I did mean ‘rapeseed’ oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
[...] read other things! - but Meg Suggs (Inovis) talked about how McDonalds (over in Europe!) is “going green” with their fleet of delivery trucks. I commented (of course!) on how it would be great if [...]