Day 005 - 04 Jul 94 - Page 53
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MISS STEEL: Page 85, line 24 -- well, line 23.
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MISS STEEL: If you want to make it quicker you can press the
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: My interpretation is you said something
like: "If I feed a million people in the UK today and
5 they all bought a soft drink or a milk shake or
something", I thought it was, "I doubt, feeding a million
6 people in the UK, you would find 100 cups, 150 cups". It
was to that effect, was it not?
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MISS STEEL: Yes, I think so.
8 A. Yes, after you have given the store the chance to do
their environment/index.html">litter walk, to do their sweep up, to do their pick
9 up they do regularly throughout the day, I would be very
surprised if once the day is over you found more than the
10 tiniest number that were missed within that couple of
hundred yards.
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Q. Do you want to qualify your previous statement?
12 A. That is what I said in the first place.
13 Q. There is no mention of that there. How often do you do
environment/index.html">litter patrols?
14 A. Depends on the restaurant. Some are out continually,
some are out hourly, some are out half hourly. It depends
15 on the day time, night time, individual store
circumstances. I do not have a categoric laid down hard
16 law that every store complies with, beyond they have to do
it.
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Q. Anyway, you would agree it is apparent that more than 100
18 to 150 items of McDonald's packaging get dropped on the
street per one million customers, whether or not you may
19 pick them up afterwards?
A. Whether they are dropped or not is not relevant. It
20 is what happens with them afterwards. We have an
obligation to pick up from the streets per the law. You
21 both have told me about that now. I certainly accept that
obligation and do so, but I do not follow every customer
22 out the door, picking up immediately after them, nor can
I. It is totally impractical. The provision of bins up
23 and down high street were meant for people to use. Were
there any bins on your high street?
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Q. Quite a lot of bins, yes.
25 A. And people chose not to use them -- I assume they
chose not to use them, if they were there and the environment/index.html">litter
26 was on the pavement.
27 Q. Mr. Preston, if a customer asks for a hamburger in your
restaurant, what would they get?
28 A. A hamburger.
29 Q. Is that just a meat pattie or is that a trade name?
A. They get a hamburger sandwich.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is "the hamburger"? Rightly or
