Post by account_disabled on Dec 30, 2023 8:25:56 GMT
It seems that McDonald's trays are old acquaintances for many . Looking back we might think that they are the same since we started visiting the fast food restaurant. The truth is that this is probably not the case. Now we know that those who visit a company location in São Paulo (Brazil) will be able to bring their food on a very special tray. The material these new trays are made of are, for the most part, food scraps and garbage in general. The company that operates in Latin America and the Caribbean, Arcos Dorados, has been the precursor of this sustainable project carried out thanks to the work of UBQ Materials, a company dedicated to making materials of this type.
According to Fast Company , in the words of Albert Douer -executive president of UBQ Materials-, the UBQ process kicks off with unclassified household waste that is destined to end up in landfills : banana peels, chicken Phone Number List bones and other remains of meals; carton and paper; diapers and mixed plastics, everything except glass and metal, which they remove and send for recycling. A patented process This is not the first time that UBQ Materials , tasked with developing a patented process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute that reduces carbon emissions , has joined forces with Arcos Dorados to expand its environmental impact initiatives.
It already did so in 2019 with an alliance in Uruguay to use this new ecological material in the items of some restaurants starting in the first quarter of 2020. «As leaders in our sector we have the responsibility to take advantage of our large scale to contribute to caring for the environment and doing good for society . The partnership with UBQ is one more step in our commitment to sustainability, since it allows us to replace materials within our operations with similar ones whose final carbon emissions are zero," explained Gabriel Serber, director of social commitment and development. sustainable Arcos Dorados. Who would have thought that the materials used and discarded daily by society, and within a restaurant, could be recycled into the durable products that surround us? Each ton of UBQ material produced is the equivalent of the carbon emissions reduction of 540 trees .
According to Fast Company , in the words of Albert Douer -executive president of UBQ Materials-, the UBQ process kicks off with unclassified household waste that is destined to end up in landfills : banana peels, chicken Phone Number List bones and other remains of meals; carton and paper; diapers and mixed plastics, everything except glass and metal, which they remove and send for recycling. A patented process This is not the first time that UBQ Materials , tasked with developing a patented process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute that reduces carbon emissions , has joined forces with Arcos Dorados to expand its environmental impact initiatives.
It already did so in 2019 with an alliance in Uruguay to use this new ecological material in the items of some restaurants starting in the first quarter of 2020. «As leaders in our sector we have the responsibility to take advantage of our large scale to contribute to caring for the environment and doing good for society . The partnership with UBQ is one more step in our commitment to sustainability, since it allows us to replace materials within our operations with similar ones whose final carbon emissions are zero," explained Gabriel Serber, director of social commitment and development. sustainable Arcos Dorados. Who would have thought that the materials used and discarded daily by society, and within a restaurant, could be recycled into the durable products that surround us? Each ton of UBQ material produced is the equivalent of the carbon emissions reduction of 540 trees .