Day 243 - 02 May 96 - Page 18
1 "19. In addition, the example of materials care provided
2 by a reuse system spreads awareness and induces people to
3 be more careful about other objects and materials.
4 McDonald's could be using its international structure to
5 spread good environmental ideas rather than bad ones as at
6 present".
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8 Is that your statement of 23rd April 1996?
9 A. Yes, it is.
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11 Q. Do you stand by it?
12 A. I do.
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14 Q. Just a couple of questions: We have had heard from
15 McDonald's witnesses that something like, when he was
16 giving evidence, I think it was Mr. Beaver, I am not sure,
17 10 out of 10,000 US McDonald's stores were actually doing
18 post customer recycling. Do you have any comment about
19 that?
20 A. I think we need to look at much more serious
21 initiatives. I mean, it is very nice if somebody does
22 something in, you know, 10 stores, but if you are serious
23 about it, you do it in all of the stores.
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25 Q. No further questions.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, thank you.
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29 Cross-examined by MR. RAMPTON
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31 MR. RAMPTON: Miss Link, I have only two serious things to ask
32 you and one semi-serious. In your first statement you make
33 a reference to returnable beer bottles in the UK -- do you
34 remember that -- it is the end of your first statement?
35 A. Yes.
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37 Q. Do you happen to know which beers actually pay money to
38 their customers, which breweries pay money to their
39 customers, to bring back the bottles?
40 A. No, I actually do not and I believe that it is because
41 of, you know, bottles of certain sorts are not taken out of
42 the pubs. So I believe it works in some instances, but
43 I do not have a lot of direct experience of that.
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45 Q. No. More seriously, Miss Link, in your second statement,
46 in paragraph 9, you give an account of events relating to
47 McDonald's in Kassel in Germany. I wondered what that was
48 based on; were you involved in that case yourself?
49 A. No, I was not involved in it. It is contact I make in
50 connection with the work promoting waste prevention in
51 Britain.
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53 Q. All we see in paragraph 9 is something you have been told
54 about, is it?
55 A. Yes, that is right.
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57 Q. Then, finally, Miss Link, at the end of your second
58 statement, paragraphs 17 and the beginning of 18 -- have
59 you got those -- you say in 17: "Hence, the environmental
60 assessment of impacts of different types of process, such
