Day 293 - 04 Nov 96 - Page 25


     
     1        a local supplier available.  So that just backed up what we
     2        say about the irresponsibility of McDonald's doing that for
     3        economic convenience but not for environmental convenience,
     4        regarding CFCs or recycled content or whatever.
     5
     6        Then just finishing off Casper Von Erp, this is not on the
     7        forest cover issue, but there are only three more
     8        references.  Pages 32 to 33, he comments about the
     9        post-industrial waste, including off-cuts sent to a
    10        different factory or something.  I think we have probably
    11        dealt with that already.
    12
    13        Page 36, lines 22 to 36, he admits to the environmental
    14        problems from foam production regarding the release of
    15        hydrocarbons.  And also in the top colour packaging, paper
    16        packaging, that the production process involves emissions
    17        that would cause acid rain.
    18
    19        Then finally on Mr. Von Erp, Mr. Rampton showed the court
    20        some recycled Polystyrene beads and McDonald's response was
    21        to very soon after abandon their Polystyrene recycling
    22        pilot scheme, for some reason.  So that completes Mr. Von
    23        Erp, some of his major points.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:   Then moving on back to Mr. Mallinson again - I am
    28        sorry, because I dodged back there - we were on to page 39
    29        about the thinnings going to pulp production.  I wanted to
    30        say that Casper Von Erp had said that anyway, so I think it
    31        is a logical conclusion from the reading of the evidence,
    32        despite some potential grey areas.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   So we are back with Mr. Mallinson again?
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:   Back to Mr. Mallinson now on page 39.  Then we are
    37        on page 40.  It seems that everybody in the courtroom by
    38        then had accepted the principle of the amount of forest it
    39        takes in reality to supply a certain amount of raw material
    40        for paper production and to do that by sustainable -- well,
    41        by volume sustainable weight.
    42
    43        Page 42 on day 56, Mr. Mallinson seemed to think that the
    44        Scottish supply cycle was 80 years and then there was a
    45        little bit of toing and froing on that a bit later on,
    46        the forest cycle for regeneration of forest.
    47
    48        Then we started getting into some figures, which we are
    49        going to go into now.  On page 43, he -- well, I am not
    50        going to do it the way they did it, because there seems to 
    51        be so much confusion.  Between pages 43 and 45, there is 
    52        various discussion about figures without considering the 
    53        total forest cover that would be needed, so you would have
    54        to multiply them by either a hundred or 80 or some other
    55        figure.
    56
    57        He said that if you multiplied his figure of 1.42 square
    58        miles, which would be kind of sheer cubic volume needed by
    59        the forest cycle, you would probably get 112 square miles.
    60        He said, on page 46, line 50, that that would give leeway

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