Why don't fast food restaurants offer recycling bins to customers?
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Fast food restaurants will offer recycling bins to customers when those paying customers ask them to. Until customers themselves give the restaurant the message that they want something, there is no motivation to provide it. Once requested by enough people, the restaurant will feel it is profitable to comply.
because it would take extra money and effort to go thru it. Besides, recycling dosent really help as much as they say.
Good Point, probably because when it comes to recycling or waste reduction these are some of the worst offenders in our whole society. They individually package just about everything, and frankly aern't really known for their role in promoting the social good, as we can see with their role in our rising obesity levels, and of course in waste production. Contrary to what JellyBean said (he's probably had too many jellybeans) recycling does help, tremendously in fact. "Recycling and source reduction are effective methods of conserving energy, cutting pollution and conserving natural resources."
They want to destroy both human kind and the environment...they're evil.
Well, fast food restaurants don't care about you long term health, let alone any type of your health at all. Why would they care about the environment by offering a recycling bin for the customers?. The answer is they don't care and why would they waste their time. They have fries to fry and burgers to flip.
That's a good question, at least I think so. I hadn't thought of that. I guess, when you recycle paper, it needs to be clean, right? Well, the wrappers on the burgers are covered in grease and ketchup for starters, and my friends would always flatten out the bags, pour their fries out on that, and then coat them with ketchup and salt, etc. So maybe the paper would be too fouled up to recycle.
However, I doubt that's why they don't fool with it. It would add to their operating costs to pay employees to manage the bins (you know people would throw the wrong trash in them) and they are in business to make money off of our bad eating habits, not protect the environment.
I think that the fast food restaurants believe customers are sloppy and will just throw everything in the bins (food, styrofoam, paper, etc). If customers are sloppy and throw everything into any old bin (trash vs. recycling) then the restaurant will be stuck paying its employees to either sort the recycling into the right bags OR face potential embarrassment by throwing away the entire bag of mixed items.
good point!! I guess fast food leads to fast waste or rubbish!
i guess its because its too time consuming...getting all the grease and sauce off the paper to make it clean for recycling.It is a fast food joint after all. they dont care about our health so why would they care about the environment!
Maybe because it would cost them more money to buy the bins and it would be more work to empty the bins or they may have to pay more money to have the bins emptied.
Fast food restaurants' main objectives is to make the food quickly and take orders from as many people as possible. Not only would recycling bins be more costly to the fast food restaurant, but it would be a "waste of time". Anything that would slow down the time that they are able to make the food would be considered a bad idea.
Many people are too lazy to sort through their trash and recyclables and to sort them into the correct bins. The restaurant would then have to deal with disposing of the recyclables to recycling companies.
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