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1 document that I know that the FTC reviewed, then the FTC
collected all the information and published what I would
2 call the official guidelines for labelling. It would have
been after this period of time.
3
MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is a period of consultation?
4 A. Correct.
5 Q. Is that one of the submissions made by interested people?
A. Correct.
6
MR. MORRIS: Is it true that the Attorneys General generally
7 have responsibility for advertising terminology, in
general advertising programmes; that is their area of
8 responsibility?
A. I do not know.
9
MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is law enforcement, is it not, attorney
10 generals, or more than that?
A. The Attorney Generals enforce the law.
11
MR. JUSTICE BELL: But that involves them offering opinions on
12 what the law ought to be?
A. Certainly.
13
MR. MORRIS: Can you just read out that section?
14 A. Section 1.5, page 8, headed: "Use of the term
'recycled' (changes). Recycle content claims should be
15 specific and separate percentages should be disclosed for
post-consumer and preconsumer materials. To avoid the
16 potential for deception the task force recommends that
only post-consumer materials be referred to as 'recycled
17 material'. Recaptured factory materials should be
referred to by some other term such as 'reprocessed' or
18 'recovered industrial material'." End of quote.
19 Q. Could you pass the report back?
20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did that go into the FTC final product or
not? Did they adopt that or not?
21 A. No, that was not adopted specifically. They took this
as input. The FTC recommendations were different from
22 this.
23 MR. MORRIS: Thank you.
24 MISS STEEL: I have a couple of questions. I am not sure
whether this was said in court yesterday. It is something
25 in your statement. You say in your statement that "the
average McDonald's restaurant produces about 140 pounds of
26 packaging on premises waste per day"; is that right?
A. Correct.
27
MR. JUSTICE BELL: 07.pounds per customer or meal?
28 A. Correct. This information was developed in our
partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund where we
29 characterised our waste and quantified it.
30 MISS STEEL: What does "on premises waste" include? Is that
everything? Say, the boxes that the fries come in
