McDonald’s Plans to Cut Garbage: The fast-food...

McDonald’s Plans to Cut Garbage: The fast-food service company announced a plan aimed at eliminating 80% or more of the garbage created by its 8,500 restaurants. The initiatives include the use of brown bags made of recycled paper, smaller paper napkins, recycling of behind-the-counter cardboard boxes and the elimination of plastic cutlery wrappers where allowed by local health codes. And the company is trying out reusable coffee mugs, reusable coffee filters and pump-style bulk condiment dispensers. It also plans large-scale, soil-enriching composting of food and paper wastes on an experimental basis.