(Photo By: Courtesy of UBQ Materials)
By: Abigail Klein Leichman - February 24, 2021
McDonald’s restaurants in Brazil are serving up orders on new trays manufactured with a composite thermoplastic material made by Israeli company UBQ Materials from household trash.
This is the first product to come out of a partnership announced in 2019 between Israeli company UBQ and Arcos Dorados Holdings, the largest independent McDonald’s franchise in the world with over 2,200 restaurants in Latin America and the Caribbean.
UBQ breaks down unsorted household waste into its basic natural components (lignin, cellulose, sugar, fiber) and creates a new composite through a process that does not use water or emit harmful fumes. The thermoplastic material can be made into things like bricks, shopping carts, pipes, trash cans and automotive parts.
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