Day 010 - 11 Jul 94 - Page 62
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: To make sure I understand, when you say "it
is an issue", you mean it is something which people ought
2 to take into account?
A. That is correct.
3
Q. Rather than it is something you dispute?
4 A. I see what your question is -- well, I have not looked
at these studies.
5
Q. When you gave that answer you meant it is something which
6 people are entitled to take into account?
A. I do agree with that, yes.
7
MR. RAMPTON: You spoke not long ago about the issue of recycle
8 versus -- I do not know what. Do you know anything about
the paper question, the trees question? You confine
9 yourself to polystyrene?
A. Our central area was, with regard to paper, recycled
10 paper.
11 Q. Have you done any research into the question of whether,
as public opinion sometimes appears to suggest, recycled
12 paper is, in fact, environmentally more beneficial than
virgin fibre? Have you looked at that question?
13 A. My name is on a publication I researched and wrote on
the issue recycling in general. That paper examines the
14 issue of paper recycling within it.
15 Q. Do you agree that within that issue or, shall I put it
this way, that issue is not easily resolved from the
16 environment's point of view?
A. Well, I agree that there are studies that have pointed
17 to environmental problems associated with recycling
paper. At the time that we conducted our research on
18 recycling, those studies had not been widely developed,
and that in the sense that the issues we were raising
19 about recycling contributed to that, the development of
further research in that area.
20
Q. One further question about your earlier evidence before
21 I come back to your written statement. Litter, I suppose
it is the same in the United States as it is here, that
22 the citizens of that country drop their environment/index.html">litter in the
gutter?
23 A. Sorry?
24 Q. Do they?
A. Repeat that question.
25
Q. Do citizens of the United States drop environment/index.html">litter?
26
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know what "gutter" is in England?
27 A. Yes.
28 MR. RAMPTON: There is a sidewalk. It does not matter what a
"gutter" is. Do they drop it in the street?
29 A. We would call it a kerb.
30 Q. Sorry, drop it in the kerb, whatever, do they drop it in
the countryside when they go on a picnic?
