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1 had a percentage of recycled content but you cannot --
2 well, do you know when they began to have a recycled
3 content and how much it was?
4 A. Not specifically on both questions.
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6 Q. Specifically on either?
7 A. No.
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9 Q. So what makes you think that prior to January 1991 they had
10 a percentage of recycled content? Is that just something
11 you have been told by somebody?
12 A. The supplier told us. You can also tell in the case
13 of napkins by the colour; it is not a pure white colour
14 which would have come from a virgin paper.
15
16 Q. You have mentioned again that legislation requires that no
17 recycled paper can be in contact with food. Is that
18 something from your own knowledge or is that something you
19 have been told by your suppliers?
20 A. We were told this by the supplier, and certainly since
21 1991 this would have been an issue that was picked up by
22 Perseco and not the McDonald's Purchasing Department.
23
24 Q. Why?
25 A. Because they took over responsibility for providing a
26 packaging purchasing service to McDonald's in 1990.
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28 Q. I have asked about the two and four-hole trays.
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. You are relying on information from suppliers. In the
32 publicity that you put out about McDonald's use of recycled
33 paper, would I be right in saying that none of that
34 publicity has mentioned the trays being made from 100 per
35 cent recycled paper?
36 A. I am not sure what publicity you are referring to. Do
37 you have a document you are referring to?
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39 Q. The leaflets that you have put out; the one I am looking
40 at, in fact, it only mentions take-away bags, I think, but
41 there was another one as well in pink Volume V.
42 A. Yes.
43
44 Q. The recycling of facts leaflet.
45 A. Without going through the all the leaflets, I could not
46 be sure about that.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think you need to put them to
49 Mr. Oakley. If you have made a check yourself and you have
50 not found it, in due course you can take me to some of them
51 and say: "Look, there is no mention of trays there" and
52 ask me to draw whatever conclusion you think is sensible
53 from that.
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55 MS. STEEL: Right. I think it may have appeared in more recent
56 documents within the last year or so. In the 1980s that
57 would have been the only item, would it not, that was made
58 substantially of recycled paper?
59 A. I think in the early 1980s that is true.
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