Day 005 - 04 Jul 94 - Page 53


     
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         MISS STEEL:  Page 85, line 24 -- well, line 23.
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         MISS STEEL:  If you want to make it quicker you can press the
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  My interpretation is you said something
              like:  "If I feed a million people in the UK today and
     5        they all bought a soft drink or a milk shake or
              something", I thought it was, "I doubt, feeding a million
     6        people in the UK, you would find 100 cups, 150 cups".  It
              was to that effect, was it not?
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         MISS STEEL:  Yes, I think so.
     8        A.  Yes, after you have given the store the chance to do
              their environment/index.html">litter walk, to do their sweep up, to do their pick
     9        up they do regularly throughout the day, I would be very
              surprised if once the day is over you found more than the
    10        tiniest number that were missed within that couple of
              hundred yards.
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         Q.   Do you want to qualify your previous statement?
    12        A.  That is what I said in the first place.
 
    13   Q.   There is no mention of that there.  How often do you do
              environment/index.html">litter patrols?
    14        A.  Depends on the restaurant.  Some are out continually,
              some are out hourly, some are out half hourly.  It depends
    15        on the day time, night time, individual store
              circumstances.  I do not have a categoric laid down hard
    16        law that every store complies with, beyond they have to do
              it.
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         Q.   Anyway, you would agree it is apparent that more than 100
    18        to 150 items of McDonald's packaging get dropped on the
              street per one million customers, whether or not you may
    19        pick them up afterwards?
              A.  Whether they are dropped or not is not relevant.  It
    20        is what happens with them afterwards.  We have an
              obligation to pick up from the streets per the law.  You
    21        both have told me about that now.  I certainly accept that
              obligation and do so, but I do not follow every customer
    22        out the door, picking up immediately after them, nor can
              I.  It is totally impractical.  The provision of bins up
    23        and down high street were meant for people to use.  Were
              there any bins on your high street?
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         Q.   Quite a lot of bins, yes.
    25        A.  And people chose not to use them -- I assume they
              chose not to use them, if they were there and the environment/index.html">litter 
    26        was on the pavement. 
  
    27   Q.   Mr. Preston, if a customer asks for a hamburger in your
              restaurant, what would they get?
    28        A.  A hamburger.
 
    29   Q.   Is that just a meat pattie or is that a trade name?
              A.  They get a hamburger sandwich.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is "the hamburger"?  Rightly or

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