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     1        as packet meal boxes, napkins, carry-out drink trays and
              paper towels".  In 1990 true or false?
     2        A.  True.
 
     3   Q.   "McDonald's is recycling its corrugated cardboard shipping
              containers in a number of restaurants in the north-east",
     4        true or false?
              A.  True.
     5
         Q.   "We hope to expand and duplicate this programme to other
     6        parts of the country as more collection and recycling
              facilities become available", true or false?
     7        A.  True.
 
     8   Q.   "McDonald's is developing procedures that make use of
              reusable items wherever possible".   I can leave that
     9        because that has nothing to do with recycling.  There are
              other documents from 1990 which, I will not refer you to
    10        now, but in due course.  There is one passage on page 614
               -- we have already referred to it -- it is the third
    11        paragraph.  It is a statement of the amount of recycled
              paper that was in use in 1988.
    12
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Could I pick up a matter on page 638?  It
    13        says polystyrene is largely air, 93 per cent, is that so?
              A.  Yes.
    14
         Q.   If I have a polystyrene foam cup, only 7 per cent of the
    15        volume of the material of the cup is polystyrene?
              A.  That is absolutely correct.  The typical clam shell
    16        will weigh about five grammes -- very, very lightweight.
              What makes it so good as packaging is over 90 per cent
    17        air.
 
    18   Q.   Blown in by whichever agent?
              A.  Yes.
    19
         MR. RAMPTON:  Just one other reference.  We have seen it
    20        before, but I want to take you back to it in this
              difference context of what McDonald's were telling the
    21        public in 1989/1990, page 614.  I do not ask you to look
              at it, but one can see from page 630, this is also dated
    22        1990, the third paragraph on 614?
              A.  Yes.
    23
         Q.   This is a document called:  "McDonald's Packaging, The
    24        Facts".  Would this also be for consumption by the public?
              A.  Yes.
    25
         Q.  "In 1988, for example, McDonald's used 63.6 million pounds 
    26        of recycled paper, a number that will increase 
              substantially with the coming use of recycled paper in the 
    27        production  of nearly 500 million 'Happy Meal' packages
              and 2 billion trayliners".  Was it true in 1988, so far as
    28        you know, McDonald's used 63.6 million pounds of recycled
              paper?
    29        A.  Yes.
 
    30   Q.   There is one really other short matter I would like you to
              deal with for this purpose.  You will need volume I of the

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