[agilbert]

Is this a good opportunity to approach fast food businesses such as Macdonalds and KFC? Their packaging often seems to be very visible amongst roadside litter and in streets around takeaways.

It would be good PR for them and a great litter picking result for us.

[gutowilliams]

Thanks Abigail, that is a really great idea. We are actually working alongside McDonalds at the moment on a litter trial tied in with our upcoming Roadside Litter campaign. We are currently in the planning stages of trialing car-bins at various McDonalds locations to see if drive-thru users being given a compact bin in their car to dispose of waste as opposed to throwing this away makes a difference over a set number of weeks. There’s also our Litter Free Zones campaign at the moment which is encouraging businesses across Wales to keep their communities’ litter-free by adopting specific zones to clean-up on a regular basis.

[agilbert]

Good to hear. The in-car bin sounds like a great idea!

[wasteawarenesspowys]

Yes I think some McDonalds are great, the one in Glynneath I am told sends their team for a mile or more around the store – into Powys even from neath and yet the ones up here keep their own land immaculate but have to be badgered and dragged to come out for a half hour litter pick once or twice a year… Might be better going to the Regional Franchisee who are the “owners” and are millionaires and own loads e.g the ones here i think Bob Beckett owns from Aberysthwth through Newtown & Welshpool, two in Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton too i think. If you can go to the top and get them to push the “order” down it could make a big difference. We did some “brand analysis” on litter round here and every place we looked other than Coke and Mars it was McDonalds the most frequent brand and in some areas around their Newtown store for exmaple very significantly so

[wasteawarenesspowys]

The unbranded generic fish & chip papers and burger van polysterne clam shells are pretty bad too though – harder to tackle more akin to “diffuse” pollution than one easy point source

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