McDonald’s Rolls Out Food Trays Made From Wastes Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc., reportedly Latin America’s largest restaurant chain and the world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee, will substitute the plastic trays cur- rently used by its customers with trays made from a thermo- plastic composed from household waste. Since implementing its plastics reduction program in 2018, the Uruguay-based company said more than 1.3 tons of single-use plastic have been removed from its operation. The new trays represent the first step in the partnership betweenArcos Dorados and UBQ Materials Ltd. (UBQ), an Is- raeli company that has patented a technology that converts household waste into a biobased thermoplastic. Through this process, UBQ receives waste destined for landfills, in- cluding food leftovers, paper, cardboard and mixed plastics. This mixed material is converted into a single-composite thermoplastic material compatible with industry machinery and manufacturing standards. In the first phase of the partnership, 7,200 serving trays made with UBQ will be introduced in 30 McDonald’s restau- rants in 20 Brazilian state capitals, replacing old plastic trays. The initiative will be gradually extended to all McDonald’s restaurants throughout the country, with 11,000 additional trays already in production. Aside from the UBQ logo, Mc- Donald’s guests will see and feel no difference in the serv- ing tray, the company said. The new trays are produced by the Brazilian company Semaza Comércio de Plástico Ltda., in its plant in Santana de Parnaíba, in the Greater São Paulo region.The introduc- tion of trays made with UBQ will be gradually extended to additional restaurants in the company’s footprint, and the old plastic trays will be reused in other circular economy projects promoted by Arcos Dorados. Pan Era Group Invests In MAS Recycling Technology Pan Era Group, a North Jakarta, Indonesia-based recycler of polyethylene (PE) and a manufacturer of carrier bags and packaging supplies, has invested in a recycling line from Austria-based Maschinen und Angenbau Schulz GmbH, an extrusion technology company.The MAS extruding technol- ogy is distributed by Efactor3, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Efactor3 offers a variety of pre- shredding, shredding, granulating, conveying, separation, extrusion, continuous disc filtration and dry cleaning equip- ment, systems integration and installation services. Pan Era Group recycles postconsumer plastic scrap,which it then processes into film products.To date, more than 95 percent of the plastic bags produced and sold by Pan Era Group are made using at least 80 percent recycled material. Currently, Pan Era Group is working to build a new plas- tic recycling plant in Cikande, Indonesia. The new facility is projected to be one of the largest PE recycling plants in Southeast Asia. For the new plant, Pan Era Group has or- dered the MAS ES-compound extrusion line with an output of 1,000 kilograms of PE per hour.
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