Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 46
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2 Q. Despite any embarrassment you may feel, are they much used
3 in your restaurants, toilet rolls?
4 A. Yes.
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6 Q. Do all your outlets, all your restaurants, have toilets?
7 A. Yes, they do.
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9 Q. Even the drive-throughs or not?
10 A. Yes.
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12 Q. They do?
13 A. The drive-throughs are usually attached to an in-store
14 anyway and the toilet would be in the lobby of the
15 in-store. We do not have any drive-through only
16 restaurants.
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18 Q. I see. Then kitchen towels, again the same date, August
19 1989, all are made from 100 per cent recycled paper?
20 A. Yes.
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22 Q. Chicken McNuggett cartons, 72 per cent recycled since
23 February/March 1991. Was there any recycled content before
24 that date, do you think? It is roughly the same date as
25 the apple pie cartons?
26 A. They are all the same supplier.
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28 Q. I see. Office stationery, I will come back to in a
29 minute. Then straws, that is for drinking with or through,
30 yes?
31 A. Yes.
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33 Q. "In November 1991 we reduced the weight from .8 grammes to
34 .75 grammes". In the context of the weight of a straw and
35 of the volume of straws used annually, is that or is it not
36 a significant reduction?
37 A. Yes, it is.
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39 Q. One notices as one goes through that list, that catalogue,
40 of recycled content, if I can call it that, in the paper
41 that we come across a variety of dates from 1981 to August
42 1989 to 1990 and through to 1991. What is the reason why
43 in some areas -- you have explained about the contact with
44 food, that I understand -- is there any other reason why
45 for some items the progress towards total recycled content
46 has been slower than it has been in relation to other
47 items?
48 A. I think prior to the establishment of Perseco in
49 Europe, which we established was around four years ago, the
50 initiative for using recycled content in our packaging was
51 mainly an initiative that came from McDonald's and the
52 suppliers but nobody was really driving this policy.
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54 The two and four holes tray supplier who has been 100 per
55 cent since 1981, that was purely his initiative, his
56 product would never come into contact with food. When
57 Perseco became established in Europe, they have really
58 driven the environmental initiative along in tandem with
59 McDonald's Environmental Task Force that had been formed.
60 So, the initiative to drive forward to some extent came
