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The oil used to make your French fries are also powering the refrigerated delivery trucks and even the refrigeration equipment aboard the trucks of McDonald’s in Mumbai for the last nine months. Now, the McDonald’s master franchise for West and South India, Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd (HRPL), is looking to expand this initiative to cover the rest of its operations over the next 12-18 months as it pushes forward on its sustainability agenda. Hardcastle Restaurants generates about 750,000 litres of used cooking oil each month from frying across its 270 restaurants. Earlier, this used oil was disposed of through waste disposal partners. However, now as it is looks at responsible disposal methods, the company has over the past year piloted conversion of the used oil into bio-diesel.