Day 005 - 04 Jul 94 - Page 45
1 Q. Yes. We are not talking about that. We are talking about
trying to identify whether your packaging does end up on
2 the streets?
A. Well, of course, packaging ends up on the streets but,
3 according to the law that you so ably read back to me,
I have to provide people that go out and sweep up and pick
4 up; I do that. I may not follow around the second they
walk out the door, but I do send people out picking up
5 after them.
6 Q. We have identified that is a statutory responsibility?
A. Yes, that is statutory as of about 1993. I can
7 contend I have done that in the UK since 1974.
8 Q. Right, but you have never done a survey or a research to
try to identify, not individual packaging left on the
9 street, but what kind of percentage of your customers are
dropping environment/index.html">litter?
10 A. No.
11 Q. You have not asked. Right. Litter patrols, as will be
heard, go a certain distance from the front of the stores?
12 A. Yes, as it says so in this document.
13 Q. But the majority of take-aways, presumably, are not eaten
right outside the front doors of the stores?
14 A. I do not know. Some are some are taken home and
consumed in their kitchen, some are taken back to the
15 office, some are eaten as people drive down the road,
I presume.
16
Q. Would you say that it is important to you how your stores
17 look outside?
A. Yes.
18
Q. You give a tidy impression?
19 A. Yes.
20 Q. You take this problem seriously, the matter of waste and
environment/index.html">litter in packaging?
21 A. Yes.
22 Q. If I refer you to document No. X2?
A. Where might I find that in that initial package?
23
Q. Yes. It is a two sided document. You should have two
24 sides. It is about EC directives on packaging and
packaging waste. Information sheet from the Tidy Britain
25 Group 1994. Just to sum it up, it is the third line down,
for the court's information: "The proposed EC directive
26 will have a major impact on Europe's packaging
manufacturers and users. It will affect raw material
27 suppliers in the packaging business and retailers".
28 Then it says further down the page: "The original
proposed directive covering all packaging and all
29 packaging waste". It says: "The objective", on the next
paragraph, "was to ensure that within ten years of its
30 adoption 90 per cent of all packaging waste would be
removed from the waste stream and recovered, ie. reused,
