Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 57


     
     1        A.  To the best of my knowledge, yes, it is.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you a difficulty of some kind?
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     5   MS. STEEL:   Not really, it is just kind of getting started
     6        actually.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just sit down for a moment and collect your
     9        thoughts so that you can get going.
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    11   MS. STEEL:   I wanted to ask about McDonald's developing a waste
    12        minimization and recycling programme.  When do you say that
    13        McDonald's first started doing that?
    14        A.  There are two different subjects there.  "Waste
    15        minimization" is probably the wrong term.  You are talking
    16        about reduction?
    17
    18   Q.   Yes, reduction in waste, yes.
    19        A.  OK.  I think a lot of the initiatives in reduction in
    20        waste came from an Environmental Task Force that McDonald's
    21        set up, I believe, around four years ago, although I was
    22        not involved in that.
    23
    24   Q.   That was in October 1990; is that right?
    25        A.  If that is what it says, that is right, yes.  I was not
    26        exactly involved directly with that.  As far as recycling
    27        is concerned, I think there has always been an initiative
    28        as we have demonstrated with a number of the suppliers.
    29        However, that initiative has gained more momentum in recent
    30        years as the environmental issues have themselves gained
    31        more momentum.
    32
    33   Q.   As pressure has increased from outside of the corporation?
    34        A.  Well, i think as awareness has increased more than
    35        pressure.  I do not know that we have ever had much
    36        pressure.  There certainly is an awareness both inside and
    37        outside the corporation and inside and outside of our
    38        suppliers.
    39
    40   Q.   Are you aware of the difference between a recycling
    41        programme and the use of recycled materials?
    42        A.  Yes.
    43
    44   Q.   Right, and what steps has McDonald's taken with regards to
    45        a recycling programme?
    46        A.  With regard to anything in particular?
    47
    48   Q.   Of its packaging?
    49        A.  Of packaging.  I think the major initiative has been
    50        the recycling plant that Lin Pac have established at 
    51        McDonald's request to try to and recycle polystyrene 
    52        packaging that we referred to earlier. 
    53
    54   Q.   The recycling plant that was opened in January 1992?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   Q.   The recycling plant that only involves five of your stores
    58        out of 550?
    59        A.  That is correct, for the reasons I gave you earlier.
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