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     2   Q.   Yes.  Apart from the equity stake and whether you had
     3        undertaken active management role in marking the products
     4        and recycling scheme, the rest of the article is accurate
     5        as far as you can recall based upon what you are told?
     6        A.  Yes, I think it is.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  OK?
     9        A.  It is a long time ago but I think it is.
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    11   Q.   Yes, that is fine, we can move on.  It just saves us having
    12        to call him if it is not disputed.  I think we can move on.
    13        It may be at some stage appropriate to read those out.
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    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not interrupt Mr. Preston's evidence for
    16        it.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  No, not no.  We can put that file away now, thank
    19        you very much.
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    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just put it on the side table, Mr. Preston.
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    23   MR. MORRIS:  There are a few questions regarding packaging that
    24        I want to ask you.  I cannot remember where we disclosed
    25        this, but we disclosed a document.  I can ask you anyway.
    26        It is a newspaper report, but did you drop your
    27        post-consumer recycling scheme in the Manchester area, the
    28        customers' recycling scheme where they were separating the
    29        waste, which was a trial scheme, which I think one of your
    30        witnesses was talking about at some length in the witness
    31        box but since then that has been dropped?
    32        A.  I think it has been dropped, yes.  We were not the only
    33        ones involved in it, there were other parties and it proved
    34        not to work, not at that stage, or the volumes we were not
    35        able to work.
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    37   Q.   Do you know when it was dropped at all?
    38        A.  No, I do not recall when.
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    40   Q.   Could it have been December 1994?
    41        A.  It could be, it was not long ago.
    42
    43   Q.   Round that time?
    44        A.  It was not too long ago, but I do not remember the
    45        exact date.
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    47   Q.   Something around that time anyway.  I am trying to find the
    48        documents called "McDonald's and The Environment 1990 USA",
    49        which refers to polystyrene foam recycling.  I think it is
    50        in bundle 2, Defendants' list of documents bundle. 
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    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, lower down.  The bright blue ones, 
    53        please.  No. 2 on the upper row, by your right-hand.
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    55   THE WITNESS:  Where am I to look?
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    57   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, it is tab 30.  It is pages 5 and 6 inside
    58        that document.
    59        A.  The one that begins "reduced, recycled, reused" left
    60        hand column?

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