Day 072 - 12 Jan 95 - Page 26


     
     1        park on top of this, so ..... I have not said in my
     2        statement that every single piece of environment/index.html">litter will be picked
     3        up.  On a number of the occasions we have had complaints
     4        about one straw wrapper on a customer's doorstep, and we
     5        cannot have people in the same spot for the whole day
     6        waiting for someone to pick up a piece of environment/index.html">litter so there
     7        will be people dropping environment/index.html">litter in between the trash walks.
     8
     9   Q.   You are basically saying that it is impossible to keep the
    10        streets free of environment/index.html">litter, of McDonald's environment/index.html">litter that is?
    11        A.  No, of any environment/index.html">litter.
    12
    13   Q.   Yes, but McDonald's, as a part of that, it is impossible to
    14        keep the streets free of McDonald's environment/index.html">litter?
    15        A.  Well, depending if you meant free for any period of
    16        time, for -----
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Put in the word "absolutely".  I would have
    19        thought it is obvious that it is impossible to keep streets
    20        absolutely free of McDonald's environment/index.html">litter.
    21        A.  Yes, it is impossible to keep it absolutely clean --
    22        free.
    23
    24   MS. STEEL:   If environment/index.html">litter patrols are really going out or have
    25        really been going out over the last year and a half every
    26        half an hour, why is that so many of the residents do not
    27        seem to think that they exist?
    28        A.  Did you say "any of" the residents or "many"?
    29
    30   Q.   "Many", so many?
    31        A.  I would not say so many; I would not say that there was
    32        many complaints.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Put it in another way.  There have been
    35        complaints about the environment/index.html">litter?
    36        A.  Yes.
    37
    38   Q.   You say you are doing your best; you have these half hourly
    39        trash walks in the immediate area and wider ones on other
    40        occasions?
    41        A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   Why do you think you still get complaints?
    44        A.  I believe that people have different thresholds as
    45        well.  As I say, some people have complained about a straw
    46        wrapper on the doorstep, when we cannot guarantee that that
    47        straw wrapper will be picked up automatically, so people
    48        will complain.  People have basements which, as I have
    49        said, we cannot -- I have stopped them going down to the
    50        basements for obvious reasons.  People have been opposed to 
    51        McDonald's even before the restaurant was opened, so people 
    52        have been actively trying to close us down since day one. 
    53
    54   MS. STEEL:   For no apparent reason, just because they have a
    55        grudge against McDonald's?
    56        A.  I believe so, yes.
    57
    58   Q.   People do not just complain about single straw wrappers, do
    59        they, or just about the environment/index.html">litter in their basements?  They
    60        complain about other packaging, fry cartons, clamshells,

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