Day 071 - 11 Jan 95 - Page 37
1 A. I have, yes.
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3 Q. In that store?
4 A. Yes, I have.
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6 Q. What, recently?
7 A. This -- I have done -- I often do many trash walks
8 where I walk around the Squares just to see how things are
9 and pick up rubbish as I go along. When we first got the
10 dust cart, I had been out on six, seven mornings by myself
11 just to see how long it would take for a crew member to do
12 the same type of job and also to set an example to the crew
13 so they knew what they had to do.
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15 Q. You said in your evidence before, you did say something
16 about most of the environment/index.html">litter seemed to be take-aways, Haagen
17 Dazs, Safeways, Marks & Spencer and some cafes and, of
18 course, McDonald's, yes? Is that correct, that most of the
19 environment/index.html">litter is take-away, generally tends to be take-away,
20 packaging?
21 A. I would say also in general in any high street or any
22 residential area most of the rubbish that is created is
23 from food packaging.
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25 Q. That especially applies to take-away? That especially
26 applies to take-away, consumable items that are consumed on
27 the street?
28 A. Yes, I mean, the whole range from sweet wrappers to
29 Coke cans to anything that is usable on the street.
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31 Q. So when your environment/index.html">litter patrols go out, are they particularly
32 concerned, though, to make sure they spot McDonald's environment/index.html">litter
33 -- I mean, honestly, be honest?
34 A. They would obviously in their interests make sure that
35 all the rubbish was picked up to the best of their
36 ability. I would not say that they just picked up
37 McDonald's rubbish; they also pick up any rubbish.
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39 Q. So, is the situation now that you get approximately 10 bin
40 liners, well, between five and 10 bin liners a day
41 collected by environment/index.html">litter patrols?
42 A. Off the top of my head, I cannot say that is accurate
43 or not.
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45 Q. Right, but you were trying to give figures, were you not,
46 before?
47 A. I was asked to give a figure, an approximation.
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49 Q. So, is that your figure that is approximate, between five
50 and 10 a week -- this is a day, is it not, five and 10?
51 A. This was hazarding a guess; I cannot say whether that
52 is true or not.
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54 Q. That is compacted by the patroller or compacted after it
55 has got back to the store?
56 A. Well, when a bag is filled it is taken down to the
57 trash room, and in the trash room there is a machine for
58 compacting these -- the bin liners on the bags they use in
59 the dining area for the trash walks are thin, plastic.
60 When it is compacted it is compacted into a thick plastic
