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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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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.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So we are back with Mr. Mallinson again?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
