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,

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