Day 008 - 07 Jul 94 - Page 62
1 as packet meal boxes, napkins, carry-out drink trays and
paper towels". In 1990 true or false?
2 A. True.
3 Q. "McDonald's is recycling its corrugated cardboard shipping
containers in a number of restaurants in the north-east",
4 true or false?
A. True.
5
Q. "We hope to expand and duplicate this programme to other
6 parts of the country as more collection and recycling
facilities become available", true or false?
7 A. True.
8 Q. "McDonald's is developing procedures that make use of
reusable items wherever possible". I can leave that
9 because that has nothing to do with recycling. There are
other documents from 1990 which, I will not refer you to
10 now, but in due course. There is one passage on page 614
-- we have already referred to it -- it is the third
11 paragraph. It is a statement of the amount of recycled
paper that was in use in 1988.
12
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Could I pick up a matter on page 638? It
13 says polystyrene is largely air, 93 per cent, is that so?
A. Yes.
14
Q. If I have a polystyrene foam cup, only 7 per cent of the
15 volume of the material of the cup is polystyrene?
A. That is absolutely correct. The typical clam shell
16 will weigh about five grammes -- very, very lightweight.
What makes it so good as packaging is over 90 per cent
17 air.
18 Q. Blown in by whichever agent?
A. Yes.
19
MR. RAMPTON: Just one other reference. We have seen it
20 before, but I want to take you back to it in this
difference context of what McDonald's were telling the
21 public in 1989/1990, page 614. I do not ask you to look
at it, but one can see from page 630, this is also dated
22 1990, the third paragraph on 614?
A. Yes.
23
Q. This is a document called: "McDonald's Packaging, The
24 Facts". Would this also be for consumption by the public?
A. Yes.
25
Q. "In 1988, for example, McDonald's used 63.6 million pounds
26 of recycled paper, a number that will increase
substantially with the coming use of recycled paper in the
27 production of nearly 500 million 'Happy Meal' packages
and 2 billion trayliners". Was it true in 1988, so far as
28 you know, McDonald's used 63.6 million pounds of recycled
paper?
29 A. Yes.
30 Q. There is one really other short matter I would like you to
deal with for this purpose. You will need volume I of the
