McDonald's Qatar Invests in Renewable Fuels
April 26, 2017http://www.tradearabia.com/news/IND_323570.html
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Al Mana Restaurants & Food Company, the owner and operator of McDonald's franchise in Qatar, has announced that the fast food chain will reduce its environmental footprint and adopt innovative ways to manage its wastes.
McDonald's has developed an oil recycling program in collaboration with Green Brokerage for Oil (GBO). GBO will collect used oil from the fast food to process it in biodiesel plants. In 2016, the 40 outlets of McDonald's used about 108,780 liters of cooking oil, while in the first three months of 2017, a total of 47,960 liters of cooking oil has already been used.
The program will ensure that used oil from McDonald's restaurants in Qatar doesn't end up in water bodies and that it is recycled for other uses. The biodiesel produced from waste vegetable oils produces less toxic pollutants and greenhouse gasses than petroleum diesel. Experts believe that using biodiesel can reduce greenhouse gasses up to 78%.
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