Transcript Recycling at Restaurants McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A

Recycling at Restaurants
McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger
King, Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A
What is your ecological
footprint?
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What is recycling?
• Recycling- the collection, processing, and
reuse of materials that would otherwise be
thrown away (Encarta)
Effects of Recycling
• If food packaging indicates that it is made
from recycled materials 43 percent of
consumers are more willing to buy it
(Arthur)
Statistics
• 50.3% of all paper consumed in 2003 was
recovered for recycling (Waste Age)
• Percent of Market Share
McDonald's 43.1%
Burger King 18.8%
Wendy’s
12.7%
Jack In The Box 4.4%
Hardee's 4.5%
Other
16.5%
• "Nearly every moment of every day
we have the opportunity to give
something to someone else – our
time, our love, our resources. I have
always found more joy in giving
when I did not expect anything in
return.” - Truett Cathy
Chick-Fil-A Interview
1. How many bags would you estimate you go through in a day?
- “I’d say about 500.”
2. What is the most important thing Chick-Fil-A does to help our community?”
- “We promote Christian and Family Values, and we promote education by
giving away scholarships to our employees. For Instance, If you work at ChickFil-A for two years you can receive $1,000 towards your tuition at any college
or university.”
3. How do you feel about Chick-Fil-A using and switching to using recycled products
throughout the Rock Hill area?
- “I think it would be a good idea, that way we can save trees by making our
bags out of recycled paper and contribute to recycling in our community.”
4. Do you feel that Chick-Fil-A will ever switch to using recycled packaging?
- “Yes, I feel that we will switch to using recycled products within the next 5
years. I know Chick-Fil-A headquarters has been debating this issue for a while
now.
5. How do you feel about placing recycle bins throughout the restaurant and even at the
exit of the drive thru?
- “I feel that this would really help our community out with our problem of
pollution. However we are not allowed to do anything to our restaurant unless it
is approved by Headquarters.”
Cam Robinson, Assistant Manger
McDonalds quote
McDonald's...
Is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 30,000 local restaurants serving
nearly 50 million people in more than 119 countries each day.
McDonald's...
Is one of the world's most well-known and valuable brands and holds a leading share in the globally branded quick service
restaurant segment of the informal eating-out market in virtually every country in which we do business.
Serves the world some of its favorite foods - World Famous
McDonalds Interview
• How many bags do you go through in a day?
– A thousands maybe less.
• How do you feel about recycled products?
– I think it’s a good idea. A lot of people are coming to
fast food restaurants so it makes a difference to
recycle.
– By recycling you are saving the environment.
Brianna Taylor,
McDonalds
employee
McDonald's Statistics
After visiting Taco Bell, Burger
King & Wendy’s restaurants we
discovered that Taco Bell does
use recycled bags but Wendy’s
does not. However we were
unable to find sufficient
information to analyze these
findings.
The Three Rs
Some of the restaurants use the three Rs of waste
management.
• Reduction
-Environmental Defense to reduce the amount of materials in our packaging by
redesigning items and/or changing the materials specifications.
• Reuse
Eliminated millions of pounds of packaging waste by having food and beverage
products delivered in reusable containers.
• Recycling
-to work as an environmental conservation strategy, it must go hand in hand
with a market for products made from recycled materials. We are committed to
recycling what we can and to significant use of recycled materials.
Proposal to Restaurants
• Here is a way to get recycling underway at
restaurants.
• http://www.earth911.org/master.asp?s=lib&
a=brrc/wrp_Create.asp