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?
    24
         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,

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