SO yesterday Macdonalds announced that in Sheffield 11 of it’s “Restaurants” would be, for a trial time, be turning it’s waste into electricity (by waste I assume they mean what customers throw away opposed to all their food!), in principal it’s a good idea however those 11 stores will actually only provide enough electricity for 50 homes which in comparison to the size of Sheffield is nothing, and there will still be a vast amount of waste from each store. Perhaps a better thing for MacDonalds to do would be to actually try and reduce the waste each branch produces. Perhaps they should try and cut down on the use of polystyrene packaging along with other non-biodegradable packaging. I can’t help but feel the whole thing is just a bit of a marketing ploy for them, let’s face it, it would be great cheap marketing, it got them onto every national news on television, it got them into the papers and got them onto all the news websites. It has ‘we don’t give a damn about the world but would like free marketing’ all over it.

On a slightly related note I finally got an e-mail back from ASDA. I e-mailed them about a month and a half ago about a car wash I got where one of my wing mirrors was flung out of position, it wasn’t major damage but I’d thought I’d test the waters at ASDA’s attitude towards customers, the reply basically said it’s not their responsibility and that they hoped I’d continue to give them their custom, it may as well have said ‘Please come again, but we honestly don’t give a damn about you’. I guess it’s no surprise from Walmart who continue to do nothing about crime problems in their car parks in the American stores in which people have had cars stolen and sometimes even been abducted.

Anyway blogging moan over I think, I’m currently sat on a train returning to Peterborough after a day in London, it’s been my first week back to the commuting twice for uni and it hasn’t knackered me as much as I thought, however I have a busy weekend with a youth weekend in Trimmingham so monday I shall be sleeping I think…