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1 should not impose on that local community otherwise they
2 are going to make it difficult for you to operate. Also,
3 they are going to be unhappy with your presence in that
4 area. It may prevent potential customers coming to your
5 restaurant and, therefore, losing business. Also,
6 personally speaking, I would not like to live in an area
7 which was littered all the time or I had problems from
8 local businesses, you know. We have to respect that
9 community for what it is. We cannot cause problems in that
10 community. Also, my time would be taken up handling
11 complaints if we did not operate to our full potential.
12
13 Q. How many bags of rubbish are collected on an average per
14 day by your environment/index.html">litter patrols?
15 A. Well, it would depend on the time of the year; it
16 depends on how busy we were at the time.
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18 Q. Let us just say, you know, average time of the year?
19 A. Average time of the year, about 10 bin liners.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When you say "bin liners" do you mean the
22 dustbin size ones?
23 A. Yes, about the same size as your bin at home, the
24 external bin at home.
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26 Q. Yes, the outside bin, not a peddle bin you might have
27 somewhere?
28 A. No.
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30 Q. That includes not just McDonald's environment/index.html">litter but any environment/index.html">litter
31 picked up on the patrols, does it?
32 A. Yes. Any environment/index.html">litter that the store generates apart from
33 what is put into the bins on the streets from inside the
34 store, and also environment/index.html">litter picked from outside the store would
35 be included in that figure.
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37 MR. MORRIS: So when someone comes back from their environment/index.html">litter
38 patrol, you said there were problems when you had
39 the -- now you have this trolley thing?
40 A. Cart, yes.
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42 Q. Has it got two bins on it or just one?
43 A. Sorry, I meant two bins. It has one bin but it also
44 has a bin at the back for holding utensils.
45
46 Q. Right.
47 A. So, when I said "two" I meant one container for the
48 rubbish.
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50 Q. You said there were problems with at one time, I cannot
51 remember, you said that when you had the original just
52 carrying a bin liner there were problems when it often got
53 full up; is that correct?
54 A. Yes.
55
56 Q. But the new cart is not any different, is it? I mean, it
57 has bigger?
58 A. Well, you can push the rubbish down. They also have, I
59 think it is called a "trash mash" and you can push the
60 rubbish down so that you can compact inside that; whereas
