Day 009 - 08 Jul 94 - Page 73
1 Q. Is it worth noting then the left-hand column or the middle
column is post-consumer waste?
2 A. Yes.
3 Q. The right-hand column is post-industrial which I take it
to mean is pre-consumer?
4 A. Yes, they are synonymous.
5 Q. I think, as you told us that is stuff -- I use the term
very loosely -- which is, as it were, swept up from the
6 floor of the saw mill or paper mill, or whatever it may
be?
7 A. Yes.
8 Q. Which should otherwise go directly into the solid waste
stream?
9 A. Yes.
10 Q. Do we see that for the napkins, for example, post-consumer
waste was 8 per cent against 63 per cent?
11 A. As an overall average at that time, yes.
12 Q. I understand that, because as you told us there are
different manufacturers using different combinations or
13 proportions. Carry-out bags 0 and 50; corrugated shipping
containers, an introduction in 1990, 35 against zero;
14 in-store plastic serving trays 50 per cent post-consumer
against zero; sandwich wraps, the other way round, 0
15 against 37; jumbo roll toilet tissue, again an
introduction in 1990, 0 against 65; carry-out pulp trays,
16 on the other hand, not a new introduction, 98
post-consumer as against 2 per cent post-industrial?
17 A. Yes.
18 Q. Happy Meals cartons 35 post-consumer, 65 post-industrial,
making, I think, 100 per cent.
19
MR. JUSTICE BELL: All those three and the next one are 100 per
20 cent.
21 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, they are 100 per cent recycled, are they
not?
22
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Carry-out pulp trays, Happy Meal cartons and
23 tray liners?
A. Yes.
24
MR. RAMPTON: Happy Meal cartons 35 and 65; tray liners 65 and
25 35, the average balance working out 53 per cent in favour
of post-consumer waste as against 37 per cent pre-consumer
26 waste?
A. Correct.
27
Q. Given that there are, I think, four introductions in 1990,
28 but that one of the introductions is heavily weighted in
favour of pre-consumer waste, that is to say toilet roll
29 tissue ----
30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Excuse me, what does the average recycled
content mean, because it comes to 90 per cent?
