McDonald's is one of the largest fast-food chains in the world. This means that there are more customers and more customers, equals more waste. Many of the McDonald's locations across Canada, have multiple bins, used for consumers to separate their waste into either trash or recycling. The restaurant does this to trick consumers into believing that they recycle because at the end of the day, the bags filled with separated waste, all end up in the same bin. McDonald's disposes of these bags, by dumping them into the same garbage bin outside.
McDonald's claims, that they are not able to recycle a majority of their waste because it is difficult to recycle items with food residue on them however, if you take a look at other companies such as Starbucks and Tim Horton's, they have seemed to manage this issue just fine.
McDonald's goal is to recycle 50% of their waste by 2020. This fact that not even 50% of McDonald's waste is currently being recycled, is an alarming fact. This poses as a major problem to the environment if you look at the relationship between waste not being recycled and the # of customers that visit a McDonald's location per day/month/year.
It's time to put an end to this.
Save the environment and spread the word by tweeting #MCDONALDSDOESNTRECYCLE
Updates
May 31, 2016
I am truly stunned by the momentum this has gained lately. This movement belongs to all of you who noticed the same thing I did and chose to act. None of this growth would be possible without your willingness to keep pushing for actual change.
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I worked there and can confirm this is true. The managers just make us throw everything in the dumpster together at the end of the shift.
I will definitely take this information into consideration when determining where to eat in the future.
recycle
recycle mcdonalds!!!!
They should recycle
:)
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McDonald's is one of the largest fast-food chains in the world. This means that there are more customers and more customers, equals more waste. Many of the McDonald's locations across Canada, have multiple bins, used for consumers to separate their waste into either trash or recycling. The restaurant does this to trick consumers into believing that they recycle because at the end of the day, the bags filled with separated waste, all end up in the same bin. McDonald's disposes of these bags, by dumping them into the same garbage bin outside.
McDonald's claims, that they are not able to recycle a majority of their waste because it is difficult to recycle items with food residue on them however, if you take a look at other companies such as Starbucks and Tim Horton's, they have seemed to manage this issue just fine.
McDonald's goal is to recycle 50% of their waste by 2020. This fact that not even 50% of McDonald's waste is currently being recycled, is an alarming fact. This poses as a major problem to the environment if you look at the relationship between waste not being recycled and the # of customers that visit a McDonald's location per day/month/year.
It's time to put an end to this.
Save the environment and spread the word by tweeting #MCDONALDSDOESNTRECYCLE
Updates
May 31, 2016
I am truly stunned by the momentum this has gained lately. This movement belongs to all of you who noticed the same thing I did and chose to act. None of this growth would be possible without your willingness to keep pushing for actual change.
7 Comments
Stop lying to your customers about being green when you are just dumping everything in the trash anyway.
I worked there and can confirm this is true. The managers just make us throw everything in the dumpster together at the end of the shift.
I will definitely take this information into consideration when determining where to eat in the future.
recycle
recycle mcdonalds!!!!
They should recycle
:)
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Stop lying to your customers about being green when you are just dumping everything in the trash anyway.