McDonald's in Warwick collected over 1,400 bags of rubbish in 2025
McDonald’s crew in Warwick have worked hard to give back to their local community in 2025 by collecting more than 1,400 bags of rubbish across the year, travelling a total of 1,135 miles across Warwick.
After smashing their 2024 targets, the team set their sights high in 2025, aiming to collect 1,200 bags of rubbish and cover 1,000 miles.
Throughout the year, the team took part in a number of initiatives from the Great British Spring Clean to the Love Where You Live events with Keep Britain Tidy, alongside daily patrols around the restaurant and the surrounding restaurants.
Local McDonald’s Franchisee, Dawood Ibtehsam, who owns and operates the Warwick restaurant, said: “I’m incredibly proud of my team dedicating their time to give back to their community. Their efforts to keep shared spaces in Warwick clean and litter free help create a better and brighter place for those that live here. Seeing our people come together in this way shows the passion and pride they have in the community they serve. We set some high targets for 2025 and beat them easily. We have set our sights higher for 2026 and can’t wait to see how we do this year!”
The team kicked off 2026 with their first litter pick event that took place in January with Mayor of Warwick, Jackie D’Arcy. Throughout the year, the restaurant is aiming to collect 1,600 bags of litter and cover more than 1,400 miles.
For more than 35 years, McDonald’s crew members have been actively helping to keep local communities’ litter free. Across the UK, a total of 5,000 miles each week are covered collecting all types of rubbish. Since the programme began in the late 1980s, crew have covered an astonishing 260,000 miles.
McDonald’s addresses litter in communities in multiple ways, both by organising regular litter picks and by reducing waste from its restaurants. As part of its mission, the brand has been working to make recycling easier, and since 2015 has installed over 1,100 new recycling units, making it easier to separate plastics and cups for recycling in 85% of its restaurants. In addition, McDonald’s collects used cooking oil from its kitchens and converts it into enough biodiesel to power more than half of its delivery fleet.