While each McDonald's restaurant is a small local business, there are more than 30,000 of them around the world. As a global family, their operations have significant environmental impacts. We seek to manage these impacts responsibly and to exercise leadership where we can.
Our diverse initiatives flow from a global commitment to environmental leadership. Within this framework, we are:
Partnering to Engage Kids in Protecting the Environment
As part of our ongoing commitment to environmental leadership and children's well-being, we have teamed up with Dream Works Animation and long-time partner Conservation International to encourage kids to "Bee Good to the Planet." Learn more about this global educational initiative and our other work with CI. For more about the launch of this initiative and what means for engagement on environmental issues, read what our Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility has to say on our CSR blog.
We are also working with our suppliers to extend our environmental commitments beyond our restaurants and into the supply chain that serves them. These collaborative efforts are part of our Socially Responsible Supply Initiative.