Environmental Sustainability Comparisons Between Mcdonald’s and Wesfarmers
Environmental sustainability comparisons between McDonald’s and Wesfarmers
Firstly, to be a signatory of Australian Packaging Covenant (an agreement of reduce the environmental impacts of consumer packaging), McDonald’s waste management states the importance of more recyclable and resource efficient packaging. Therefore, McDonald’s promises to increase the usages of recovery and recycling packaging. In the graph below, the amount of purchase paper and cardboard is much bigger than the plastic ones.
Then, McDonald’s joins the federal government’s Energy Efficiencies Opportunities (EEO) Program. Therefore, McDonald’s businesses are required to report their greenhouse gas emissions which are published online. In this way, the low oil volume (LOV) fry vats with less oil and energy consumption and better cooking efficiency are used in the restaurants. This LOV fry vats can reduce 40% of oil usage equals to 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. Also the LED carpark lights with 50% to 70% less energy usage and new energy saving system called Capture Jet is installed in new restaurants. The below graph shows the energy consumption of per 1000 transaction.
Thirdly, McDonald’s attaches importance of the water usage as a key of restaurants’ operation. According to McDonald’s Australia corporate responsibility & sustainability report 2012, an average of 746 kilolitres of water is used by the 95 restaurants which join the Sydney Water program in per day. This data is indicative of water used in domestic restaurant, however McDonald’s still focus on the reduction of water usage such as the staffs education and capture of roof water and rainwater
Firstly, to be a signatory of Australian Packaging Covenant (an agreement of reduce the environmental impacts of consumer packaging), McDonald’s waste management states the importance of more recyclable and resource efficient packaging. Therefore, McDonald’s promises to increase the usages of recovery and recycling packaging. In the graph below, the amount of purchase paper and cardboard is much bigger than the plastic ones.
Then, McDonald’s joins the federal government’s Energy Efficiencies Opportunities (EEO) Program. Therefore, McDonald’s businesses are required to report their greenhouse gas emissions which are published online. In this way, the low oil volume (LOV) fry vats with less oil and energy consumption and better cooking efficiency are used in the restaurants. This LOV fry vats can reduce 40% of oil usage equals to 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. Also the LED carpark lights with 50% to 70% less energy usage and new energy saving system called Capture Jet is installed in new restaurants. The below graph shows the energy consumption of per 1000 transaction.
Thirdly, McDonald’s attaches importance of the water usage as a key of restaurants’ operation. According to McDonald’s Australia corporate responsibility & sustainability report 2012, an average of 746 kilolitres of water is used by the 95 restaurants which join the Sydney Water program in per day. This data is indicative of water used in domestic restaurant, however McDonald’s still focus on the reduction of water usage such as the staffs education and capture of roof water and rainwater