February 8, 2010 Fast food company McDonald’s Corp. has set a corporate goal of reducing energy consumption at every outlet by 3 percent. The reductions will not only trim operating expenses, they’ll end up crediting the chain with huge greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions.
The goal was added to a growing list of ways the company reduces its environmental footprint. They’re detailed in McDonald’s 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report.
For example, McDonald’s is also:
- developing a toaster that uses 28 percent less electricity that current models
- introducing a food storage unit that uses 30 percent less power
- reducing the amount of packaging for its meals
- encouraging its customers to help each store recycling paper and containers, and
- recycling cooking oil and turning it into bio-diesel fuel.
