Day 006 - 05 Jul 94 - Page 58
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Q. You disagree with this then?
2 A. I do.
3 Q. You do, right. Would you in any event agree that it is
more than just one or two items of McDonald's packaging
4 that gets dropped on the streets, whether or not you
believe that it is your fault?
5 A. McDonald's packaging gets dropped on the streets.
Aligned with that is the fact that I do not believe that
6 anybody on Britain's high streets does more than we do, as
a company, to try to speak to the issue, be it sponsoring
7 environment/index.html">litter bins, be it provision of people walking the
streets, be it hosing down the pavements. I do not
8 believe anyone goes further than we do to try and speak to
the issue.
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The only thing left for me to do, I guess, is follow every
10 patron out of our restaurant, wherever they go, which is
an absolute absurdity.
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Q. McDonald's does those things, I presume, because people
12 drop environment/index.html">litter because if not you would not need to do it; is
that right?
13 A. We do it because people drop environment/index.html">litter, yes.
14 Q. If you are having to do it once every hour or two hours or
half hour, presumably, that means that quite a lot is
15 being dropped on our streets?
A. It could be the walk is made regardless of what is out
16 there. The walk is made to see what has been dropped, not
because it is necessarily there. A person goes out to
17 look. If is there they pick it up; if it is not there,
they have nothing to pick up.
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Q. But after a few weeks when they have gone out and they had
19 only found, I do not know, one cup every third time they
went out, they would stop going out that often, would they
20 not?
A. No.
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Q. They would not?
22 A. No. The walks are conducted to a schedule, regardless
of what they think or do not think they are going to find.
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Q. Do you have any idea of the amount of environment/index.html">litter that patrols
24 do find?
A. No.
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Q. You do not do any monitoring of that?
26 A. I have done environment/index.html">litter walks myself on many occasions.
I find things. I would be surprised if I do not walk down
27 the Strand tonight and find something. It may very well
be next to a bin where the dropping party could have put
28 it in a bin; it may have been blown out of the bin in the
wind. I have no way really of knowing.
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MR. MORRIS: On the subject of trade unions (because that was
30 left out of the employment issue), what is the function of
trade unions, as you understand it?
