Happy meal: bad for you, good for environment

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Ronald_mcdonaldMcDonald's menu may be infamous but its environment record gets cleaner every day.

By the end of this year, the company will power all 155 delivery trucks in the UK with cooking oil collected from restaurants (an estimated 1.6 million gallons a year) and converted into biodiesel.

The fast-food company, which spends more than $1 billion a year on energy globally, will use a networking system to save power on everything from fryers, grills and, milk-shake machines to air-conditioners.

Bon appetit.


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