The good oil on Maccas

McDONALD’S UK has committed to run its 155 delivery trucks on bio-diesel partly made from its own recycled cooking oil.

McDonald’s claimed the move would save 1650 tonnes of carbon each year, which it said was equivalent to the yearly emissions of 2424 family cars.

The bio-diesel will be made up of 85 per cent used cooking oil from about 900 McDonald’s restaurants and 15 per cent unused rapeseed oil.

Matthew Howe, senior vice-president at McDonald’s UK, said the company was looking to increase the amount of recycled oil in its bio-diesel.

But he confirmed that exhaust emissions from the bio-diesel would not smell like the products cooked in it.

“If our trucks drove around the High Street and smelt of our fries, it would be fantastic, but unfortunately it does not,” he said.

“It would have been one of the best marketing campaigns we could ever have had.”