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1 said -- I thought I made it very clear to you -- I just
2 said that there may be a plan to expand but I am not aware
3 of it. I am not responsible for this programme and I am
4 not involved in this programme.
5
6 Q. You are not aware of why it has not been expanded so far?
7 A. I am not aware that it is not going to be expanded in
8 the future which was your question.
9
10 Q. But are you aware of why it has not been expanded in the
11 two years that it has been going?
12 A. We were getting all the experience we needed from these
13 restaurants.
14
15 Q. Yes, but the purpose of this recycling programme was not
16 just for experience, was it?
17 A. Was it not?
18
19 Q. You are saying it was? You are saying it was just for
20 experience?
21 A. I think you were asking me the question, were you not?
22
23 Q. Are you saying that this recycling programme that you have
24 been running in Manchester was just for experience?
25 A. No.
26
27 Q. You are not.
28 A. I do not think I have ever said that.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I wonder if you may be slightly at
31 cross-purposes because whether it is worth expanding the
32 restaurants, no doubt, depends on how far the recycling
33 plant has actually got. Is that actually functioning yet,
34 so that whatever you put in from the five restaurants is
35 actually recycled at the plant, or are you still working on
36 that? Can you say?
37 A. That is a very good point. Yes, I can say. I went to
38 Lin Pac two years ago and I asked them if we could expand
39 this programme to include 50 restaurants. They said, no,
40 they were not in a position to do that as yet because so
41 much of the operation is a hand operation. They have still
42 not indicated to us that they are in a position to operate
43 a recycling programme from 50 restaurants. Therefore, we
44 have left the recycling programme at five restaurants
45 currently.
46
47 MS. STEEL: To expand it would be labour intensive is their
48 worry?
49 A. They are also not sure -- that is part of it, but they
50 are also not sure that they would have a ready market for
51 all of the materials. I do not know that they have the
52 conversion equipment in their converting factories to be
53 able to convert the recycled material, so it is a two-fold
54 thing.
55
56 Q. What is happening to the recycled material at the moment
57 then?
58 A. I do not know what happens to it at the moment. You
59 must ask Lin Pac if they are coming in as witness.
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