Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 51
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2 Q. I will deal with recycling first. To what extent do those
3 cardboards that are used by McDonald's contain any recycled
4 content?
5 A. Today?
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7 Q. Yes, today.
8 A. Substantially. I would say it varies by supplier but
9 I think the average today is around 59 per cent of all
10 corrugated board is recycled. Some suppliers will be much
11 higher than that, some would be lower, but the average is
12 around 57 to 59.
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14 Q. Are there any other kinds, major kinds -- I do not want
15 little bit and pieces -- of paper packaging which is used,
16 as it were, outside the inside of the restaurant, whether
17 in the kitchen or in the transport or what, other than
18 corrugated cardboard?
19 A. Are there any other major kinds of packaging?
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21 Q. Yes, major kinds of paper packaging.
22 A. Paper packaging?
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24 Q. Yes, I want to deal with paper first and then I will come
25 on to packaging generally.
26 A. In some cases there is a wrapped paper sleeve as
27 against a corrugated cardboard.
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29 Q. Does that have any recycled content?
30 A. It would be certainly in excess of 50 per cent recycled
31 content.
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33 Q. Since when, roughly speaking, again has McDonald's been
34 using recycled content in its cardboard and paper wrapping
35 packaging for transport and storage?
36 A. The story is very similar to packaging, the inner
37 packaging itself. It varies by a supplier. A major
38 supplier like McCane's, for example, has ever since I have
39 been involved with them, 16 years, they have always had a
40 percentage of recycled material in their outer packaging.
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42 Q. Can I ask you a bit more about that? You mean that the
43 processed potato which will end up as a french fry on the
44 customer's, not plate, on the customer's table, or in his
45 paper bag, is packed by McCane?
46 A. Yes.
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48 Q. Is that right?
49 A. It goes into an inner polythene bag and the inner
50 polythene bags go into an outer corrugated case.
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52 Q. What you are saying is that the outer corrugated case
53 supplied with the fries by McCane has, so far as you are
54 aware since you have been working for McDonald's, always
55 contained a recycled portion?
56 A. That is correct.
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58 Q. What sort of volume of cardboard packaging are we talking
59 about for your french fries? Let me ask you it perhaps
60 another way: Are french fries a popular item in your
