McDonald's to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel for powering supply trucks

Hardcastle Restaurants, the master franchisee for McDonald's in the western and southern markets, is planning to recycle the used cooking oil and convert it into biodiesel for powering its refrigerated supply delivery trucks, a top company official said on Monday.

The company is currently piloting the project here, and is also looking at Bengaluru.

"We will soon bring all our 277 outlets under the recycling programme," Vikram Ogale, director, supply chain and quality assurance, Hardcastle Restaurants (HRPL), told reporters here.

The company started the pilot last year, with Unicon Biofuels, and has so far scaled it up to cover 85 restaurants in the city, converting over 35,000 litres every month into biodiesel, he said.