Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 29
1 comes into contact with the food items that were sold after
2 they had been cooked, I mean, in the store?
3 A. Are you referring to wraps?
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5 Q. It might be wraps, it might be boxes, I do not know. What
6 about the french fries, what would they come in?
7 A. French fries, a small portion is bagged and the large
8 portion is boxed. The small hamburgers are both wrapped.
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10 Q. So that is all paper?
11 A. That is all paper.
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13 Q. I am going, of course, to ask you about recycling in a good
14 deal more detail later on, Mr. Oakley. To what extent, so
15 far as you are concerned, is it possible to use recycled
16 paper content in those wrappings or cartons which come into
17 contact with the food?
18 A. The wrap being into contact with the food?
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20 Q. Yes.
21 A. Well, if you take a french fry carton or an apple pie
22 carton or a Chicken McNuggetts box, for example, the
23 recycled content of each of those cartons will be 72 per
24 cent. The outside of the carton, the part that touches the
25 food, would be pure virgin material and the outside of the
26 box would be pure virgin material, but the inside portion,
27 the 72 per cent, would be recycled material.
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29 Q. Do we in this country have any regulation or law which
30 prevents us from putting recycled paper into contact with
31 food?
32 A. Yes.
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34 Q. We do in this country?
35 A. We do.
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37 Q. Does that also apply in other parts of the world or not?
38 A. What we tend to do in McDonald's, because so much of
39 the packaging is produced for European use, we tend to move
40 towards the highest common denominator which in this case
41 is Germany. Therefore, most of the packages that we use
42 are used in this way because German law requires it.
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44 Q. Yes, I see.
45 A. Therefore, the rest of Europe would use the same
46 package.
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48 Q. Nowadays, at any rate, is the European packaging, as it
49 were, all centrally sourced?
50 A. Yes, it is, through Perseco.
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52 Q. Whose Head Office now is in Langley in Buckinghamshire in
53 this country?
54 A. That is correct.
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56 Q. That is for its whole European operation?
57 A. That is their pan European office.
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59 Q. I think they used to be in Holland in?
60 A. They were at Utrecht in Holland originally, yes.
