Day 060 - 02 Dec 94 - Page 54
1 numbers. That needs to be done. They may well be right.
2
3 Q. It does not indicate that you only switched over to 72 per
4 cent recycled for your Apple Pie Boxes halfway through the
5 year?
6 A. How do you know?
7
8 Q. It does not say it there, does it?
9 A. But how do you know that the end figure they are
10 claiming there is not an amalgam of 72 per cent and the
11 previous percentage?
12
13 Q. Yes, but if a journalist wanted to write a story about the
14 amounts of recycled paper you had been using and how long
15 you had been using it for, they would think that you had
16 been 72 per cent recycled content in your Apple Pie Boxes
17 for the whole year, would they not?
18 A. They might, I do not know what they would think.
19
20 Q. You said that it was for some time prior to -- in fact,
21 I think you said for as long you have been associated with
22 McDonald's that there was a high percentage of recycled
23 paper in the carry-out bags; is that right?
24 A. Yes.
25
26 Q. Perhaps if you leave that on the side because we may come
27 back to it. In pink Volume V ---
28 A. Yes.
29
30 Q. -- if you turn to tab 39 ---
31 A. Yes.
32
33 Q. -- the document we were looking at yesterday, page 685?
34 A. Yes.
35
36 Q. The second paragraph of that says: "We are currently
37 encouraging our suppliers to reduce the weight of packaging
38 outers as far as possible and all our take-away bags are
39 now made from 50 per cent recycled paper". That was in
40 June 1990.
41 A. Yes.
42
43 Q. There is an implication there, it could be read into that,
44 that is a fairly recent development in terms of the 50 per
45 cent, they are now making 50 per cent recycled paper.
46 A. You could read that into it. But, as I have said, as
47 long as I can remember there has been recycled content. In
48 my evidence on yesterday morning, I said it was somewhere
49 in the region of 50 per cent.
50
51 Q. Are you saying it has been 50 per cent for as long as you
52 remember or what?
53 A. No, I think it has gone up in stages and has continued
54 to go up in stages until it got to 100 per cent.
55
56 Q. If we look at document No. 35. Again, this was a document
57 disclosed by the Defendants but perhaps you could confirm
58 it is a McDonald's document?
59 A. I recognise the people's names, although I have not
60 seen the document.
