User:Goldenen01/McDonald's

Economic Efforts
McDonald’s Corporation has joined the United Nation’s Race to Zero campaign, which strives for zero emissions by 2050, and also takes part in SBTi (Science Based Target initiatives)’s Business Ambition for 1.5°C campaign. McDonald’s Corporation is a large player in both the fast-food restaurant industry and the global business industry, whose many first-tier supplying industries including dairy, wheat, meat, etc., are at-risk to climate change and global warming. In America, the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) and EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) impose strict laws federally surrounding environmental impacts that McDonald’s must follow, or face shut down. By these laws amongst others in the U.S., McDonald’s Corporation is obligated to maintain certain emissions standards and is actively lowering their contributions to the global issue of climate change through more eco-friendly materials and practices.

McDonald's eco-friendly practices are far reaching. First, McDonald's Corporation recycles their used cooking oil, utilizing it to fuel more than half of their delivery trucks. Next, they're reducing emissions in their supply chain of beef, since they're one of the top beef buyers in the world and beef supply emissions are in the top three highest carbon outputs in their entire supply chain. Then, physically making each restaurant more sustainable, using solar power and reducing water waste, as well as cutting down drive-thru idle times, since cars in idle produce a lot of carbon. Finally, McDonald's Corporation is working on the eco-friendliness of their packaging, pledging to have 100% of their packaging composed of recycled, renewed, or certified materials and to place recycling bins in their restaurants by 2025.