As a part-time crew member at a McDonald's restaurant in Britain for just over a year I have been noticing the insane amount of plastic that our store goes through (and we are a very small store, about 60 staff) but that is not what gets to me, it is the fact that it is just chucked into the bins and not recycled.
On a busy day (usually weekends) we could go through 6 (2.2 litre, semi-skimmed) milk bottles at least just for the hot drinks machine, this plastic gets binned. Other plastics include: bottled water, Orange Juice, Fruit Shoot and bottled milk. Just for staff breaks alone we would go through about 20 bottles a day, all of which gets binned. As you can see lots of plastic used by staff gets chucked and sent to a dump with the other rubbish.
As for customers it would be at least 70 to 100 bottles a day. All that is needed is a few more bins but for plastic instead of rubbish and someone to collect it when they collect the rubbish and the cardboard (currently the only thing McDonald's actually recycles).
Keep in mind that this is a small store, imange the amount of plastic a big store in a highstreet produces!
So I asked our store manager (the person who pretty much runs the McDonald's store) and they said that it would simply cost McDonald's money for things like people to sort it, people to pick it up and fuel for it to be driven to a recycling plant.
However it is not all gloom and doom, McDonald's does recycle cardboard and does reuse oil from our frie and chicken vats into some of the fuel for our delievery trucks.
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