A group of four crew members from the McDonald’s restaurant at Valegate Retail Park, recently teamed up with two residents and a volunteer from St Fagans Cattery, to clean up the area around St. Fagans.

The group focused on the litter that gets thrown out of cars on the way to the popular tourist spot.

Eleven bags of litter were collected as part of Keep Wales Tidy’s ‘Autumn Clean Cymru’ Campaign.

The volunteers were split into groups of six and maintained a 2m distance at all times to ensure social distancing rules were followed.

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All volunteers wore their own PPE and face masks and all equipment was sanitised before and after the event.

McDonald’s franchisee, Ralph Parker said: “I’m really pleased with my team from Culverhouse Cross for helping the community and giving their time and efforts to do their bit for our local Cardiff residents.

"McDonald’s are driven to combat litter and we are really happy with the difference we made.”

McDonald’s crew members have been cleaning up litter dropped in our local communities for over 35 years.

Crews across the UK cover a total of 5,000 miles each week on litter patrols (where they collect litter from any origin, not just their own.)

This equates to 260,000 miles, or the distance from Earth to the Moon.

McDonald’s is tackling litter in local communities, both by litter picking and reducing the amount of waste its restaurants produce.

The brand has been working to make recycling easier over the past four years, and since 2015 has installed more than 1,100 new recycling units, meaning it’s easier to separate plastics and cups for recycling in 85 per cent of its restaurants.

McDonald’s also collects used oil from its kitchens and turns this into enough biodiesel to fuel more than half of its delivery fleet.