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1 beginning of the extraction process to the end of the
disposal process, and even necessarily beyond the clean-up
2 process associated with toxic disposal.
3 So that if you are going to claim that the energy
consumption that begins somewhere in the life cycle of a
4 product and ends when it is disposed of, shows it is more
beneficial to extract resources continually, pass them
5 through people's hands and have them wind up in a
landfill, that this is somehow less exhaustive of energy
6 resources than reusing items in the middle of the
product's life cycle. It would be necessary to fully
7 account for all of these points in the process of the life
cycle of the product or the food packaging or the vessel
8 for food.
9 Q. But, in your opinion, it seems to defy the laws of
physics?
10 A. That is what I have said, yes.
11 MR. MORRIS: I have basically finished. Because of the hurried
nature of assembling the documents, was there any
12 particular document that you can remember that you wanted
to draw the court's attention to?
13 A. Nothing occurs to me at this time.
14 Q. Can I spend a minute collecting my thoughts?
15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. (Pause)
16 MR. MORRIS: I have no further questions.
17 Cross-Examined by Mr. Rampton.
18 Q. Mr. Lipsett, you made a written statement for the purposes
of this case back in July last year, about a year ago?
19 A. Yes.
20 Q. When you made that statement did you expect you might have
to come in person and give evidence in this court?
21 A. I viewed that as a possibility, yes.
22 Q. As a possibility. I expect when you sat down and wrote it
you, therefore, took care to ensure that it was in all
23 respects accurate, reliable and credible?
A. I would say that I produced the document on my home
24 computer in my home in Pennsylvania where I am currently
located.
25
Q. I am not talking about -----
26 A. I reviewed it as carefully as possible to make sure
that there were no major errors in it.
27
Q. I do not criticise your home computer for misspelling
28 "fluorocarbon" on two occasions, but I wonder, did you,
for example, have in front of you when you wrote this
29 paper the article from what you have as the October 1987
issue of Modern Plastics?
30 A. At that time?
