McDonald's Restaurants in three large UK towns are to experiment with a new environmentally friendly plan designed to save fuel and take care of the waste from these restaurants each day.
Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley will take part in the initiative which is funded by McDonald's. Refuse from the restaurants will be collected, and turned into electricity, heat at the purpose built energy recovery facility in Sheffield. The energy recovered will be used to heat and light local buildings.
Veolia energy recovery Facilty.
This state of the art facility can recovery energy from waste material that cannot be recycled.
Each of the three restaurants currently sends around 10 metric tonnes of waste food and other materials to landfill sites each year. The amount of energy recovered will provide heating for 130 local buildings including sports facilities, town halls and hospitals.
There are plans to extend this scheme to other areas of the UK and eventually other parts of the world.
The eleven restaurants involved in this scheme are trying out solar panels, and a wind powered generator. Cardboard recycling is also being initiated.
So, McDonald's is doing its bit when it comes to cutting carbon emissions and slowing down climate change.
译文:
麦当劳要为小镇供电了
在英国的三大镇里,麦当劳餐厅正进行着着一项有关节能和处理每天餐厅废物的环境保护计划.
谢菲尔德,罗瑟汉姆和巴恩斯利这三个城市将会参与这次由麦当劳赞助的行动当中.回收餐厅每天产生的垃圾,将它们转化成电能,热能, 用于建设谢菲尔德的能源转化站.这些转化而成的能源将会为当地高楼大厦提供电.
威立雅能源转化设施
这个新的技术设备可将不可回收的垃圾转化成可用能源. 每年, 这3家餐厅会将10立方公吨的食物残渣和其它类型的垃圾运送到垃圾填埋场.而这里面转化成的能量可以为包括体育场, 大礼堂和医院在内的130间当地建筑提供热能.
有计划让这个项目先在英国其它地区推行, 最后再推广向整个世界.
参与这个项目的11家餐厅正尝试使用太阳能板和风能发动机. 而厚纸板回收利用的活动也正在进行.
由此可见,麦当劳也正为了减少二氧化碳排放和减缓气候变化尽上自己的绵薄之力.