Day 060 - 02 Dec 94 - Page 41
1 appears to be saying that polystyrene from the Nottingham
2 restaurant has been turned into plant pots and hangers and
3 things like that. You have that point.
4
5 MR. MORRIS: May be we will just move on then.
6
7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think so, otherwise we have so many
8 hypothetical situations, and I do not know whether any of
9 them or which of them at the end of the day are going to
10 have some kind of factual basis.
11
12 MR. MORRIS: Yes. If we then go to document volume IV, that is
13 pink IV, and it is tab 5, page 223. Tab 5 is the Final
14 Report, you will see at the beginning of tab 5, of
15 McDonald's Corporation Environmental Defence Fund Waste
16 Reduction Task Force?
17 A. Yes.
18
19 Q. Which you are aware of in this country?
20 A. I am aware, yes.
21
22 Q. Your department will have had copies of this report for
23 study, presumably?
24 A. We have not, but I am aware of the report.
25
26 Q. Your department never got a copy of this report formally?
27 A. No, we have not, not the Purchasing Department;
28 somebody may have done but Purchasing did not.
29
30 Q. So it was not considered to be relevant to the purchasing
31 of packaging types?
32 A. All I am saying is we did not receive a copy of this
33 report.
34
35 Q. So did your department discuss the conclusions of this
36 report?
37 A. No.
38
39 Q. It did not?
40 A. No.
41
42 Q. So, in America, presumably you are aware of a massive
43 flurry of activity based around this partnership and
44 report, in Britain it had no effect at all, no formal -----
45 A. I would not say it had no effect at all; we are aware
46 of what was going on in the United States.
47
48 Q. But you were not aware of the details by actually reading
49 the document?
50 A. We did not have a copy of this document, no.
51
52 Q. So the awareness of it came through the normal channels of
53 rumours and personal chats, did it, with other members of
54 the Corporation?
55 A. No, it did not.
56
57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, you know, that is a tendentious way of
58 putting it. Lots of very big operations are carried on by
59 word of mouth as much as by document.
60
