Day 009 - 08 Jul 94 - Page 72
1 Q. Do you remember that? This is 1989.
A. Yes, I remember.
2
Q. Did you write it -- no, you were at Perseco then?
3 A. I was at Perseco but I remember reading this.
4 Q. That is all I wanted to draw attention to. That was
McDonald's statement of it so far as this report, annual
5 report, is concerned in 1989, its position in relation to
environmental affairs. So far as you are concerned, as
6 the person at Perseco, is this a fair and accurate account
of McDonald's position on environment at the time?
7 A. Yes, it is.
8 Q. You can put that one away, Mr. Langert. If you would not
mind, passing the coloured copy across to his Lordship.
9
MR. MORRIS: Do you know when that report was published?
10 Presumably, if it was a 1989, annual, it would be
published the following year.
11
MR. JUSTICE BELL: The copyright is 1990, McDonald's
12 Corporation printed in the United States of America.
13 MR. RAMPTON: What I was asking Mr. Langert was, if I did not
put a date on it I will, so far as you can recall, does
14 that statement in broad terms, because it is a very broad
statement, fairly represent McDonald's attitude on
15 environmental affairs in 1989?
A. Yes, it represented it from my first day working at
16 Perseco.
17 Q. From your first day at Perseco?
A. Exactly right.
18
Q. So that takes us way back to 1983?
19 A. Perseco, mid-88 was when I joined Perseco.
20 Q. You are quite right. There are a couple of other
matters. This time we need pink bundle IV, section 5 page
21 274. This is part of your EDF Task Force report, the
final report. It is table figure 41?
22 A. Yes.
23 Q. It says: "McDonald's packaging made with recycled content
in 1989". This is all paper or paper board we are looking
24 at here?
A. Yes.
25
Q. There was a good deal of toing and froing this morning, or
26 maybe this afternoon, about the amount of recycled fibre
in your various items at various times whether, and how
27 much it consisted with pre-consumer, how much
post-consumer. Do you remember that?
28 A. Yes.
29 Q. This column, at any rate for 1990, seems to give us the
answers, does it not?
30 A. For that point in time, yes.
