Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 57
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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.
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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.
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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?
