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1 there was no plant in the UK to do it". Then in May 1992
2 there was some trial at the Garden Festival in Wales after
3 McDonald's -----
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I think you had better stick to what
6 this witness does or does not know, because if you are
7 going to read from that statement, you have to go back to
8 paragraph 9 and we have actually had evidence from the
9 witness. If you can find a way of jogging his memory, that
10 is fair enough if, indeed, there is a memory to jog. Is
11 there anything which might help you, from your experience,
12 fix on when some granulate or recyclate came out of the
13 plant which was turned into something useful?
14 A. Well, there has been -- something useful has been
15 coming out of the plant from the moment it has been set
16 up. The purpose of that first recycling plant was really a
17 test case for Lin Pac. Their first purpose was not exactly
18 to make big amounts of money. At that point in time they
19 wanted to gain experience in recycling. For that purpose,
20 they sometimes had to just collect material until they got
21 large enough batches that they could actually put through
22 the system. Sometimes they were working on different
23 materials as well. So, I do not know exactly when they
24 were exactly doing or dealing with the McDonald's material
25 at that time.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, there you are. When I said something
28 useful, I did not just mean the granulate; I meant
29 something useful in that sense but which was then turned
30 into something which I might use, for instance.
31 A. I doubt whether they even -- they know whom they sold
32 their material to.
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34 Q. Yes?
35 A. But I doubt whether they can tell us when that was
36 used. I know that they can give a precise account of whom
37 they sold it to, their materials, because I have asked them
38 for that and they have said literally this material that
39 came from this plant it is actually blended in with some
40 other waste streams to be sold to people that make, and he
41 quoted to me, and that is current, CD boxes, video boxes
42 and coat hangers.
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44 MR. MORRIS: So when you joined Perseco, 1991, was it not?
45 A. End of 1991, yes.
46
47 Q. When did Lin Pac start taking polystyrene packaging from
48 McDonald's to customers -----
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think the first thing you must ask
51 Mr. Van Erp probably is whether he knows these things.
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53 THE WITNESS: I think that was -- that had started just before
54 I had joined Perseco. All the talks were at least that far
55 that they, when the first actual transaction took place,
56 I do not know. One of the first meetings that I have had
57 in that area, they were doing it and that must have been
58 the beginning of 1992 somewhere and, to my recollection,
59 they were doing it then. But whether that was January 1992
60 or whether that was May 1992, I could not tell you.
