Day 060 - 02 Dec 94 - Page 43
1 A. I have explained to you, I am not familiar with the
2 specifics of this document.
3
4 Q. No. Do you feel it might have been helpful if you had
5 actually got a copy of this document sent to you from the
6 United States then?
7 A. If we had a landfill problem, it would have been
8 helpful, yes.
9
10 Q. But you do not know if it is only concerned with landfill,
11 do you?
12 A. I do not because I do not have a copy of the document.
13
14 Q. Right, so it might have been helpful, might it not, to
15 actually get a copy of the document?
16 A. It might have been, it might not have been -- I really
17 do not know because I am not familiar with the specifics.
18
19 Q. Is it your understanding that McDonald's Corporation is
20 internationally concerned about the environment or is it
21 just only in the United States?
22 A. I think around the world there are varying degrees of
23 concern. In the United States they were very concerned
24 over the landfill problem; in this country it has been
25 other issues; in France it has been hardly at all. So,
26 there are varying degrees internationally.
27
28 Q. What about this report? One example can be on page 274 of
29 that report, it talks post-consumer waste and post
30 industrial waste which you say you do not know -- sorry, in
31 terms of recycling content. Just for one example, that is
32 something which you said may be important but you do not
33 know any details about this country, do you?
34 A. Is this part of ------
35
36 Q. It is part of the official report, yes.
37 A. This is part of the EDF report, yes?
38
39 Q. Yes, official McDonald's EDF Final Report?
40 A. I am not familiar with the specifics, as I told you,
41 yes.
42
43 Q. Yes. So do you now recognise that there are matters in
44 this report that do not relate to landfill concerns?
45 A. Yes, I can see there are as we go through.
46
47 Q. OK. If we move on to page 223, just very briefly, the
48 report looked at, as far as I can see -- I am trying to
49 find the context of this particular piece -- the page
50 before, talking about the implications for replacing
51 polystyrene foam clamshells. On page 223 at the bottom it
52 compares the environmental implications of polystyrene foam
53 with the new wraps in the States, yes?
54 A. Yes.
55
56 Q. Is it true it says: "Energy use - foam requires 86 per
57 cent more ... Air emissions - Foam produces 40 per cent
58 more ... Waterborne Wastes - Foam produces 80 per cent more
59 water discharges ... Solid waste - Foam produces four times
60 more solid waste", that is 400 per cent more by volume"?
