Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 32
1 factory or, if the factory did not have the ability to deal
2 with that amount, would it just have been disposed of?
3 A. For Lin Pac, that amount at that time would all have
4 been processed by them.
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6 Q. Right.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So, what are saying is that all the
9 polystyrene waste which came from the four Manchester
10 restaurants would have been processed by Lin Pac; is that
11 what you are saying?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. In addition to whatever?
15 A. Allowing for waste, what happens during that process
16 which is probably ---
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18 Q. I understand that.
19 A. -- negligible.
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21 Q. But apart from waste in the processing, it was all
22 processed by Lin Pac in addition to any other waste which
23 they may have got from any other sources?
24 A. Oh, they did.
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26 Q. They did.
27 A. They did get waste from other sources as well.
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29 Q. You know what a bean bag is, do you?
30 A. Yes, those are the big fluffy bags.
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32 Q. You can buy vast quantities of little pellets to put in
33 bean bags if you want to make them. Is that what the
34 granulate looks like or may be you do not know?
35 A. No, that looks more like -----
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37 Q. If have a split it goes everywhere but that is -----
38 A. Yes. That is a foam bead.
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40 Q. That is a foam bead, is it?
41 A. Yes. The granulate polystyrene bead is a little
42 plastic bead, a solid, hard bead of plastic. It looks
43 almost like virgin polystyrene bead unless -- the only
44 difference is it may have some colour, it may be greyish,
45 it may be blackish, it may be whatever colour went in.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Does it have to be reblown?
48 A. To be made into foam, yes.
49
50 Q. So it becomes a kind of virgin material again once it is
51 recycled?
52 A. Sorry?
53
54 Q. It becomes a virgin material again once it is recycled?
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am afraid your terminology -- it is not
57 virgin material by definition but it is, effectively, the
58 same, is it?
59 A. It is the same up to a certain standard. It has got
60 lower quality characteristics, as I said earlier, about the
