Day 003 - 30 Jun 94 - Page 35
1 suggest that a fastfood service of your scale will
generate a certain amount of environment/index.html">litter, potential environment/index.html">litter?
2 A. I think I would dispute whether we generate it.
I think we are a source of food materials that are
3 packaged conveniently for take-away. There are
fortunately a small member of the public, small number of
4 people publicly who do not really dispose of it properly.
5 Q. I was going to go come on to that, because what you
actually said, or are reported as having said, is rather
6 different from the part that the defendants have extracted
to support their case with. You go on: "But I have waited
7 at many a traffic light in London and seen people my age
throw candy wrappers from their car windows. I have seen
8 it as many times as Carter has peanuts", that is President
Carter of the United States?
9 A. Jimmy, yes.
10 Q. Then you say: It is a British social problem, and given
all the talent you guys have here, I am surprised you have
11 not conquered it". Mr. Preston, whether you remember
saying that or not. Does that or does not represent your
12 view of one of the causes of the problem?
A. It certainly represents my views.
13
Q. Do you think there are respects in which your company
14 could do more to encourage people to be socially
responsible with their environment/index.html">litter and not throw it out of the
15 car window or into the gutter?
A. I am sure there are. The whole company ethos is:
16 Where we are today? How can we be better in the future?
It covers everything we touch.
17
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Forgetting your own outlets, is environment/index.html">litter more
18 of a problem in the UK than it is the States?
A. Sir, I have not lived there for 20 years so I do not
19 have a day in and day out feel. I would have said it is a
guesstimate from travelling back and forth. For a city
20 of, well, metropolitan area London of nearly 12 million
people, I would have said a comparable city in North
21 American of 12 million people in the density there are
here, there is probably not a lot in it. It is probably
22 very very similar.
23 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, Mr. Beavers has actually written a
statement about it and he will give your Lordship
24 information about the problem in America tomorrow.
25 So, Mr. Preston, I will if I may leave the problem of
environment/index.html">litter for the moment. I pass then to nutrition. Aside
26 from two matters, I have asked you all I need to ask you
about that in the course of taking you through the
27 pamphlet. Does your company produce leaflets for the
information of the public on nutritional matters?
28 A. We do and we have for sometime.
29 Q. My Lord -- I do not ask you to look at them, Mr. Preston
-- I will pass a couple up just so you can identify them
30 in their proper coloured form. I believe these are both
British versions. That is an old one because it has Bob
