Recycling at Restaurants

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Recycling at Restaurants

• McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, Wendys,
  Chick-fil-A

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What is your ecological footprint?

• www.bestfootforward.com/footprintlife.htm

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What is recycling?

• Recycling- the collection, processing, and reuse
  of materials that would otherwise be thrown away
  (Encarta)

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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)

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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
• Wendys        12.7
• Jack In The Box   4.4
• Hardee's     4.5
• Other        16.5

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• "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

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Chick-Fil-A Interview
1. How many bags would you estimate you go
through in a day? - Id 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 Chick- Fil-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
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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
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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 its 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,
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  McDonalds employee

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McDonald's Statistics
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After visiting Taco Bell, Burger King Wendys
restaurants we discovered that Taco Bell does use
recycled bags but Wendys does not. However we
were unable to find sufficient information to
analyze these findings.
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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.

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Proposal to Restaurants

• Here is a way to get recycling underway at
  restaurants.
• http//www.earth911.org/master.asp?slibabrrc/wr
  p_Create.asp