Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 65
1 A. "or duvets".
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3 Q. So one might have thought the inference is that it is
4 actually being recycled into such things.
5 A. That is what it says, yes.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I hesitate to interrupt, but one ought
8 perhaps to look at the previous sentence in fairness to the
9 witness: "To assess the potential of recycling foam
10 containers" which it calls a pilot scheme.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I see that. I think it would be helpful if we
13 could find out just what is there.
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15 MS. STEEL: I have a better copy here actually.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you read it out slowly?
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19 MS. STEEL: "We are currently running a pilot scheme at four
20 restaurants in the Nottingham area to assess the potential
21 of recycling foam containers. Customers are asked to
22 divide their waste, putting food remains and paper into one
23 bin and recyclable foam cartons into another - the aim
24 being that the foam is then collected for recycling into
25 such things as plant pots, coat hangers and insulation
26 material for use in homes, even fillings for duvets". Is
27 there any part of that that you want me to read?
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No.
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31 MS. STEEL: A customer reading that would think, would they
32 not, that McDonald's was taking this seriously and was not
33 actually engaged in some kind of recycling, be it a pilot
34 scheme?
35 A. It does say "the aim being" very clearly. It does not
36 say it is actually being done.
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38 Q. No, but it does not say it is actually not being done
39 though, does it?
40 A. It says "the aim being".
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That "The foam is then collected for
43 recycling into such things as" and they are listed. There
44 we are. I will draw my own conclusion about it. Do you
45 actually know what happened to the waste from these bins
46 which it looks, broadly speaking, was half polystyrene and
47 half something else altogether?
48 A. I do not actually know. I would imagine the exercise
49 took place as a customer exercise and whatever was
50 collected in whatever form was then disposed of, because
51 there was no infrastructure to deal with any separated
52 materials.
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54 Q. There is no suggestion then that the polystyrene was
55 separated out and put in some store against the day when
56 there would be an infrastructure?
57 A. No.
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59 Q. It was dumped somewhere?
60 A. That is right. As far as I am aware, that is correct
