Day 292 - 01 Nov 96 - Page 45
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2 Then page 70, lines 12 and 56, Germany, about McDonald's
3 was recycling in Germany, they would be taxed otherwise.
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5 And then on page 71, he said, quite revealingly: We had
6 have no alternative if it was the same here.
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8 Page 74, lines 21 to 30, customers could be doing it okay.
9 I cannot remember what I meant by that, except for that
10 customers are ----
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I can look at the actual transcript.
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14 MR. MORRIS: Yes. The general drift is.... I mean, sometimes
15 it is because I am reading between the lines of what they
16 are saying. They may be saying one thing, but if you
17 actually read between the lines, they are saying the
18 opposite.
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20 Page 76, lines 2 to 28, legislation would make McDonald's
21 get it working, i.e., staff would work on it. Yes, he said
22 that it seemed the main problem was they did not want to
23 devote any of their valuable labour percentage costs to
24 doing recycling, and since their labour costs are - we have
25 not actually heard any evidence.... Well, I will leave
26 that out. I was going to say their labour costs are
27 probably so small compared to other companies - but we know
28 that - that they should be able to find labour to do
29 recycling.
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31 Page 77, lines 37 to 45, he was saying that Lynne Pack were
32 also finding it hard to expand because it was labour
33 intensive, which again implies the cost consideration,
34 which of course would not be the same if it was law or if
35 they were genuinely committed to environmental concern.
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37 The point on page 79, which is the last on that day,
38 factories can recycle, and the point I make there, if not
39 practicable, styrene should not be used at all. That was
40 an inference I was drawing, a conclusion, which is that if
41 it is in fact impossible to recycle polystyrene waste, then
42 the environmentally concerned society would not allow that
43 waste to be created because it would be there forever. So
44 the point is, if it is recyclable, it should be done; if it
45 is not, then the material should not be used or certainly
46 it is open to being criticised for being wasteful, which is
47 what this case is about. The case is about the right to
48 criticise.
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50 So we are moving on to day 60 next, which is over the page.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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54 MR. MORRIS: Page 6, no recycling anywhere in the world except
55 for Germany, it seemed. Page 7, again that is about tax,
56 they get taxed if they do not use re-usables. Page 8, UK
57 all dumped in landfill. I think that is about it all ends
58 up as environment/index.html">litter or landfill, their customer packaging.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Was it, or was it the stuff which had
