Day 124 - 10 May 95 - Page 52
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The second sentence.
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3 THE WITNESS: Yes.
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5 MR. MORRIS: What were the issues, do you remember?
6 A. Issues like the manner in which the Manager or
7 Assistant Manager communicated with his employees was one
8 instance. Another example would be the failure to maintain
9 equipment in a timely fashion. There were, you know,
10 complaints from crew people about the poor condition of
11 equipment. Will those examples suffice?
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You will be asked more questions.
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15 MR. MORRIS: Are there any other examples that you can remember?
16 I know it is long time ago.
17 A. There are other examples. I mean, during the course of
18 that period of time there are always opportunities that
19 I had to deal with, but those were, you know, two examples
20 of what I was talking about.
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22 Q. We are actually looking for something. While we are
23 looking for that -- a completely separate matter -- the
24 post customer recycling at McDonald's: To be honest,
25 I cannot remember what was said earlier on in the case. Is
26 there any post customer recycling still done at McDonald's
27 in the USA? In other words, asking customers to separate
28 their packaging out into various bins and that kind of
29 stuff and it being collected -- this is the waste
30 packaging?
31 A. That still continues in the United States, yes.
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33 Q. Customers are quite capable of doing that? It has a value?
34 You are not just doing it for show; it has a value, does
35 it?
36 A. We think so and many of our customers think so --
37 obviously some more than others.
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39 Q. But, in general, does it work that customers put the things
40 in the right boxes or the right bins and participate to
41 some kind of efficient level?
42 A. It could always be improved, it could always be better,
43 but we are pretty pleased with the savings that the system
44 has been able to garner from implementing that recycling
45 programme.
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47 We have been recognised by a couple of outside agencies,
48 one environmental protection agency, I believe, just gave
49 us a commendation for the success we have had with our
50 recycling efforts. We have actually had some restaurants
51 just about built from the ground up completely with
52 recycled materials.
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54 Q. That is another matter, though, is it not? That is buying
55 materials that have been recycled.
56 A. But that is part of it.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you are really being asked is whether,
59 by and large, customers co-operate and manage to get the
60 right materials in the right bins and so on or whether that
