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A Ridgeland
teenager has started a campaign to encourage
fast food restaurants to implement customer
recycling programs. 13-year-old Jonathan
Lee holds recycling signs stating his motto,
"Eat Green. Live Green.", with his
mom every Monday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 7
p.m. in front of the McDonald's restaurant on
Highway 51 in Ridgeland.
"I'm going to continue campaigning until
the CEO of McDonald's assures me that
McDonald's will offer recycling options at
fast food restaurants," said Lee, who
wants to be an environmentalist when he grows
up.
Three years ago, Lee started an I.C.E.Y.-H.O.P.E,
a non-profit organization, which stands for International
Cooperation of Environmental Youth-Helping Our
Polluted Earth. For more than a year, he has
campaigned for fast food restaurants to
recycle and give healthier food options.
FOX 40 News reached out to McDonald's. A
marketing supervisor e-mailed the following
statement: McDonald’s
has made significant strides in the
development of environmentally sound packaging
for more than 20 years. McDonald’s
first established a corporate environmental
policy and commitment in 1990, and has since
continuously improved. During this time,
McDonald’s also partnered with the
Environmental Defense Fund to develop a Waste
Reduction Action Plan that resulted in a
reduction of packaging by more than 300
million pounds. Through
partnership with our suppliers, we have
developed a scorecard to understand supplier
performance in the areas of energy efficiency,
water conservation, air emissions and waste
management. With this scorecard we
better understand environmental attributes of
our packaging options. This, along with
customer acceptance, functional and
operational feasibility, price and
availability all play a role in our
decision-making process. Specifically,
our McDonald's restaurant in Ridgeland
participates in a number of waste management
efforts, including the recycling of cardboard
waste and the removal and recycling of used
cooking oil.
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