Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 52


     
     1        restaurant?
     2        A.  Very.
     3
     4   Q.   What are the size of the packages which arrive from McCane
     5        in their frozen state?
     6        A.  Ten and half kilos.
     7
     8   Q.   Which in volume is how big?  I mean, I cannot envisage --
     9        like that?
    10        A.  Like that.  (Indicating)
    11
    12   Q.   Have you any idea how many of these are used in a year?
    13        A.  We are using approximately 50,000 cartons a week
    14        currently.
    15
    16   Q.   50,000 cartons a week.  Has that number grown since 1978?
    17        A.  Substantially, it grows by around 12 to 14 per cent per
    18        year.
    19
    20   Q.   Is that a significant part of your packaging use, the
    21        packaging of french fries, for example?
    22        A.  It is probably the greater part of all outer packaging
    23        that we use.  It would certainly be substantially more than
    24        hamburgers, for example.
    25
    26   Q.   Then if we may look back with an overview of the evidence
    27        you have been giving us since 2 o'clock, perhaps before,
    28        how do you react to the suggestion that only a tiny
    29        percentage or proportion of McDonald's packaging is or has
    30        been recycled?
    31        A.  It is untrue.
    32
    33   Q.   Now I want to ask you a bit more about packaging generally
    34        and what we discussed earlier today, reduction.  Are the
    35        means by which you can eliminate quantities of packaging by
    36        what one might call changes of scale?
    37        A.  Changes of scale meaning size?
    38
    39   Q.   In the amount of material contained within a package of
    40        whatever the package might be made.
    41        A.  There are means of eliminating packaging.
    42
    43   Q.   All right, sorry, you tell us about that.
    44        A.  OK.  Coca Cola in our restaurants today is delivered in
    45        bulk tanks or, to be more precise, each restaurant has a
    46        bulk tank.  The distribution truck has a bulk tank also.
    47        The two tanks are connected by a pipe at the time of
    48        delivery and the tank in the restaurant is refilled.
    49
    50        Prior to this happening, all Cola syrups were delivered to 
    51        the restaurant in five litre jugs and a substantial number 
    52        of five litre jugs have been eliminated from the system. 
    53        In fact, all packaging relating to syrups has pretty much
    54        been eliminated from the system as the packaging is now
    55        permanent.
    56
    57   Q.   The containers which have now been replaced, what were they
    58        made of?
    59        A.  Plastic, polyethylene.
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