Day 071 - 11 Jan 95 - Page 13

     
     1        material?  Does it have the golden arches on it or
     2        anything?
     3        A.  It just has the logo, the Golden Arches.
     4
     5   Q.   The logo.  Have you any idea of the cost of one of those
     6        £300 a year sponsored bins?  I mean, the capital cost of
     7        buying one?
     8        A.  I am not aware of the cost, no.
     9
    10   Q.   Do you know (and if you do not know, say so because we have
    11        a witness who does know) whether or not McDonald's has any
    12        legal obligation to keep the street clean within a certain
    13        range of its premises?
    14        A.  I know there is a environment/index.html">litter leaflet produced in which it
    15        states that we have an obligation to keep the immediate
    16        area free of our environment/index.html">litter.  I am not sure what distance this
    17        is, or I am not sure what the council could do if we did
    18        not keep within these guidelines.
    19
    20   Q.   Can I just show you a leaflet and see whether this is what
         you are talking about?  Is this the one you were talking
    22        about or not?
    23        A.  Yes, it is.
    24
    25   Q.   Do you keep copies of this in your restaurants?
    26        A.  We do, yes.
    27
    28   Q.   If you turn it over -- incidentally, I should draw
    29        attention to the fact that it is published by the Tidy
    30        Britain Group and paid for by the Department of the
    31        Environment.  We see inside a number of blue and green
    32        headings, "What are the environment/index.html">litter laws?" and "Who are 'Duty
    33        Bodies'?"  We see the duty bodies which have a
    34        responsibility to keep the land clear of environment/index.html">litter and refuse
    35        are mainly local authorities, government departments,
    36        statutory undertakers (e.g. British Rail), most schools,
    37        colleges and universities.  Then it tells the reader how
    38        the duty is enforced.
    39
    40        If you look over to the right-hand inside page under the
         heading:  "What can local authorities do?" we see this:
    42         "As well as giving new rights to the citizen, the EPA" --
    43        the EPA is the Environmental Protection Act 1990 -- "gives
    44        new powers to local authorities to take action against
    45        individuals and businesses who create environment/index.html">litter, and powers to
    46        get areas cleaned up".  Then there is a passage about
    47        individual offences.  Can you turn over to the next page
    48        which is an outside page?  It says:  "Litter-free streets",
    49        do you see that?
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   It reads as follows:  "Where a environment/index.html">litter problem can be 
    53        clearly traced to the owner or occupier of a business, such
    54        as take-away food premises, the local authority can issue a
    55        Street Litter Control Notice.  This makes the owner
    56        responsible for keeping the front of the premises, plus a
    57        reasonable distance either side, clear of environment/index.html">litter".
    58
    59        What I was going to ask you was this, in the time that you
    60        have been manager of McDonald's, do you know or have you