Tim Hortons is ramping up its environmental initiatives. A pilot program in the Maritimes will be a step towards a closed loop system to manage waste.

Earlier this summer Clean Water Action combed San Francisco and the surrounding region and found heaps of trash from fast food companies. Time for them to lead.

As of Monday, Domino’s customers can tweet or submit their feedback via Domino’s Time Square Tracker, taking stakeholder engagement to a new level.

That grease has to go somewhere, and now it is sometimes stolen in the middle of the night. Stolen grease incidents were isolated just a couple years ago, when what the industry calls “yellow grease” often sold for about thirty cents a pound-most restaurant owners were happy to just get rid of that waste. Now it’s a big business and a target for thieves.

For here, to go, or reuse? By 2011, KFC claims that the company will reduce the use of foam by over 60% and total plastic use by 17%. Part of the push will be an introduction of reusable packaging. Currently 60% of its restaurants serve some of its sides in colorful plastic containers—all restaurants will feature them by next year. The company hopes that customers will reuse, and eventually, recycle, the containers.