Close cooperation and partnerships are essential to developing new logistics solutions in the cities of today and tomorrow. In the Netherlands, Scania, HAVI and SUEZ are joining forces to make McDonald’s supply chain even more sustainable.
In a quite backstreet in downtown Den Bosch, Irma van Hoof is waiting for a high-tech vehicle. Together with her husband, Hans, she is the owner and operator of one of the oldest McDonald’s restaurants in the Netherlands.
Business is going well and she loves her job. But in recent years, the ageing neighbourhood has been complaining about noise and fumes from the vehicles that serve her premises.
Not any longer. The hybrid truck backing into the alley is silent and clean. It’s also purpose-built for waste management, separately collecting eight different residual flows in a single stop: cardboard, plastic, PET, organic waste, coffee grounds, aluminum, deep-frying oil, and residual waste.
“It’s such a big change for us, this new hybrid truck,” says Irma. “We have been running our business here in central Den Bosch for many years now. During that time, we have seen our city centre steadily change into a more sustainable place. And this vehicle is, for sure, the future.”
The next step
In the Netherlands, waste and recycling company SUEZ and logistics provider HAVI have both been providing services to McDonald’s for a quarter of a century, constantly working to improve sustainability in the logistics waste chain. In addition, Scania and HAVI are working together to reduce the ecological footprint of McDonald’s logistics. In 2017, they signed an international agreement to reduce the number of diesel-powered vehicles by switching to hybrid or gas-driven vehicles.
Introducing Scania’s hybrids marks the next step for both partnerships.
Challenging approach
Just like Scania, SUEZ needs partners who take the lead in continuously developing new, sustainable transport and logistics solutions.
“We have a challenging approach,” says Iwan te Winkel, Director of Fleet and Logistics at SUEZ Netherlands. “To develop our vehicle fleet, good partners are very important. For example, we can challenge Scania with our specific demands and Scania will come up with the options we need for a more sustainable future. I truly believe partnership is a prerequisite for understanding what the future can bring in sustainability.”
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SOURCE: Volkswagen
