Day 007 - 06 Jul 94 - Page 67
1 are probably the highest recycled paper product in our
country, followed, maybe, by newspapers and office paper.
2 Those are things I am aware of.
3 Q. How long has it been possible to recycle corrugated paper?
A. I am not really sure.
4
Q. You do not know. In the late 80s, according to your
5 figures which we will not look at but you may remember,
there was 6 per cent recycled paper content in your
6 packaging in 1987 and 7 per cent in 1988 as far as
I understand.
7
MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, we had better get it right.
8
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Whichever it is, let us find out.
9
MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think it is 7 but it is best to be
10 accurate.
11 MR. MORRIS: I am sure I am right.
12 MR. RAMPTON: 6 per cent in 1987 is quite right.
13 MR. MORRIS: And 7 per cent in 1988 and 1989?
A. OK.
14
Q. We do not know what it was in 1990 because there was a
15 hiccup on the chart.
A. What was the name you want?
16
Q. 51 per cent. Why was that figure not 100 per cent in
17 1987?
A. In 1987?
18
Q. Yes, it was 6 per cent. Why was it not 100 per cent?
19 A. There simply was not and currently is not the capacity
to produce enough recycled paper. The mills have focused
20 in the past on virgin paper production and until, I think,
McDonald's again leading the way put forth a lot of demand
21 for recycled paper and the mills responded and created
capacity so we could use it. They put in the proper
22 sanitation standards we need to live by, and are just now
starting to give us paper we can use in many of our direct
23 food contact applications.
24 Q. Was the problem with the quality of the paper that you
needed in 1987 for, say, packaging that may be in contact
25 with food or whatever; you could not get good enough
quality?
26 A. Quantity -- you stuttered from the second to quantity.
27 Q. Quantity not quality?
A. Quantity was the issue at that point. Nobody was
28 making it.
29 Q. Six per cent of people were making it, yes?
A. Yes, for those applications we were consuming. We put
30 it into drink carriers, pulp trays and that was a common
raw material for that package. It was not in direct food
