Day 008 - 07 Jul 94 - Page 61
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I will leave it there. I do not know what "carton" means
2 in Australia. In this country it has a very wide
connotation. A "clam shell" could easily be referred to
3 as a "cartoon".
4 MR. RAMPTON: It is only another word here for cardboard box.
5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Any kind of -----
6 MR. RAMPTON: Cardboard container. I agree. Can we have a
look at what the United States McDonald's were telling
7 people just a year later? If we go backwards in the
bundle to the previous section, section 31 and turn to
8 page 631?
A. Yes.
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Q. You see a document which is called McDonald's in the
10 environment. If you turn to the last page which is 642,
you can see in very faint letters 1990 at the bottom of
11 the page. Do you see that?
A. Yes.
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MR. MORRIS: 642?
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MR. RAMPTON: Yes. 1990 McDonald's Corporation. Do you have
14 that, Mr. Langert?
A. Yes, I do.
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Q. You see at the front there is a sort of an open statement
16 from Mr. Ed Rensie who describes himself as the president
of McDonald's USA and the chief operations officer?
17 A. Yes.
18 Q. Can we turn to what Mr. Rensie or, rather, the person who
wrote this document is telling the public in the United
19 States in 1990 at page 637? I want you to look at the
indented passage?
20 A. Yes.
21 Q. "McDonald's launched the largest ever polystyrene
recycling programme in 1989"; is that right?
22 A. Yes.
23 Q. You told us what happened to that?
A. Yes.
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Q. They did not really get off the ground in the end; is that
25 right?
26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Go to the bottom of the page because that is
polystyrene.
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MR. RAMPTON: Yes, at the bottom of the page you see this:
28 "McDonald's is already the largest user of recycled paper
in a quick service restaurant", true or false at that
29 time?
A. True.
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Q. "We use recycled paper for non-food container items such
