Supermac’s is Ireland’s largest and fastest-growing indigenous fast food group with over 100 restaurants in Ireland.
The CGPP project in Supermac’s looked at investigating environmental savings, with trials in four restaurants initially.
Following this trial, successful project elements were rolled out to company restaurants and will be adopted across all 100 restaurants.
The main areas of focus included energy reduction, water conservation, waste reduction and environmental training for staff. The project was successful in delivering a range of environmental and economic improvements.
- €99,000 per year saved based on environmental improvements
- reduction of 68 tonnes of plastic and cardboard packaging.
- reduction of 2,984 kg of waste to landfill
- displacement of 300 litres of chemical cleaning agents by using chemical-free alternatives
- reduction of 50,000 litres of cooking oil consumed per annum
- 210,000 litres of cooking oil reused for bio-diesel
- energy savings of 58,335 kWh p.a. (equating to 30 tonnes of CO2) and a reduction of 2.98% energy p.a.
- 23% saving on refrigeration load following ecube device installation equating to 22 tonnes of CO2 saved
- 4,700 m3 of water saved per year
- 90 restaurant managers received energy awareness training and over 300 staff received CGPP environmental awareness training
For further details, download the Supermacs PDF.
