Day 009 - 08 Jul 94 - Page 66
1 A. I would -- my opinion would be the rainforest issue.
2 Q. And the third, if you can recall?
A. The first being polystyrene?
3
Q. Yes.
4 A. A third would be, I would just say use of natural
resources, trees.
5
Q. OK.
6 A. Small amounts. There is a -- today the letters that
we are getting in over the last couple of years, there is
7 not that many enquiries of these sorts.
8 Q. I think you commented on it, but I cannot remember, if you
refresh my memory. In Mr. Lipsett's statement, during the
9 McToxic campaign some groups organised collections, did
they not, of McDonald's packaging and return them to the
10 stores, or return them to the company in some way as a
protest. Are you aware of that?
11 A. I am aware that we had asked our customers to recycle
the packaging in the restaurant.
12
MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, it is a protest.
13
MR. MORRIS: For example, there was a group one of them would
14 be a group called "Kids Against Pollution" who called on
people to collect McDonald's packaging and returned it in
15 bulk?
A. I do not know. It would be a matter of speculation.
16 I would not be surprised if at one store people might have
brought back packaging to that store. It would not
17 surprise me if that happened.
18 Q. Or to headquarters? You were not aware of it?
A. I was not aware of it. Again it would not surprise me
19 if that might have happened.
20 Q. It was a bit before your time anyway?
A. I was around. At least, I was around, not under the
21 employ of McDonald's, but working very closely for
McDonald's. It might have happened, you know, once or
22 twice. We did not get any significant -- any volumes of
it into McDonald's.
23
Q. Just to clarify this -- how much time have we left?
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MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, there is no need for Mr. Morris to fill
25 up an allotted time. It does not work like that. I have
four or five questions in re-examination. Mr. Langert is
26 booked to go home tomorrow.
27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think Mr. Morris' concern is not filling
up time, but getting through what he has left. He thinks
28 he will do that all right.
29 MR. MORRIS: Just to clarify what became quite a murky thing on
figures with waste, without getting too mathematical about
30 it, the figure that has been suggested was something like
an average of 140 pounds waste per store, is that correct,
