Day 124 - 10 May 95 - Page 53


     
     1        causes difficulty.
     2        A.  It does not cause difficulty.  They do to some degree;
     3        it could be better.  Some areas of the country are a little
     4        more -- seemed to be a little more concerned and exert a
     5        little more of an effort.
     6
     7   MR. MORRIS:  We have heard that there has been a pilot scheme in
     8        the UK for recycling for customers to separate their
     9        packaging into separate bins.  Is there any reason you
    10        could think of why that should not be successful?  Are
    11        people in Britain, in your experience, any different
    12        from -----
    13
    14   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do not believe Mr. Beavers can answer
    15        that.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  It may be a policy of the Corporation.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you know about any recycling project in
    20        this country?
    21        A.  I am not immediately conversant on that subject, my
    22        Lord.  I am sure that they have initiated some type of
    23        recycling programme.  I would be very surprised in most of
    24        the western world where McDonald's is located that they are
    25        not engaged in some kind of recycling effort.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You see, you are going to seek to make a
    28        point in relation to the questions you have just asked
    29        about binning and so on.  You are going to say:   "Well, if
    30        it works in the States, it could work here."
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:   Yes.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you find out what they do in the States
    35        with material collected for recycling, you can do it quite
    36        shortly.  Then you can say to me, if the answer is helpful
    37        to you:  "Well, they could do that in this country too".  I
    38        mean, I can draw conclusions like that.  We are not so
    39        different from the Americans.  We may be different but we
    40        are not so different that I would expect what you can do
    41        would be quite impossible for us.
    42
    43   MR. MORRIS:  Someone said that we share everything in common
    44        except the language.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me assume that in this area of the case
    47        anyway.  Just try to find out with one or two simple
    48        questions what they manage to achieve in the States.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS (To the witness):  It is not all stores, is it, in 
    51        America? 
    52        A.  No, it is not. 
    53
    54   Q.   What kind of percentage of stores actually do customers do
    55        the recycling, approximately?
    56        A.  I would say I would be just guessing and I would rather
    57        not on that matter hazard a guess.  I will tell you this.
    58        There are certain areas of the country that are more
    59        environmentally conscious than others.  If you look at the
    60        greenland states, for instance, the North East part of the

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