McDonald's to convert used cooking oil to biodiesel

June 21, 2007

BY Michael Shirek

Posted July 6, 2007, at 1:22 p.m. CDT

McDonald's Corp. has announced that its British chain has begun to convert its used cooking oil into biodiesel for use in its fleet. The fuel will be used as B100 and is expected to power the company's entire 155-vehicle fleet in the United Kingdom.

A company press release noted that the biodiesel will be produced from 85 percent used cooking oil and 15 percent rapeseed oil.

"We are cuurently working with the Delta Institute, a non-governmental organization, on possible ways to recycle our used restaurant oil for a variety of purposes," McDonald's Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility Bob Langer said in a statement released by the company. "Also, this year we launched a small-scale test at our Oak Brook, Ill., headquarters in which our used restaurant oil is being converted to biodiesel fuel for our campus shuttles."

McDonald's will gather the used cooking oil from approximately 900 of its restaurants in the United Kingdom.

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