Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 36
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2 MR. MORRIS: So, as to your memory, would you say, from your
3 recollection, it appeared that they had started taking
4 McDonald's polystyrene and making it into granulates around
5 that time, winter 1991/1992, would that be?
6 A. I would not know whether they had started then or
7 whether that was -- I could not tell you. I do not know
8 when my first meetings were in this area any more. It
9 could have been anywhere in the first half of 1992.
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11 Q. Right, so it was around -----
12 A. By my recollection, then they were either then at that
13 point in time they were already shipping the material or
14 the material was actually picked up at the restaurants by
15 Lin Pac.
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17 Q. Around that time?
18 A. Yes.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The impression I have -- we will break off
21 there and you can continue if you want -- at the moment is
22 what you are saying is: Lin Pac had started taking
23 material from McDonald's, you think, just before you joined
24 Perseco and you joined Perseco in September 1991?
25 A. Yes, I could not tell whether it is just before or--
26 because I did not, I was not involved also in this other
27 scheme.
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29 Q. You said they were doing it at the time of your first
30 meetings which were in the first half of 1992?
31 A. Yes.
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33 MR. MORRIS: So would it -----
34 A. That would be a fair statement.
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36 Q. -- be fair to say it was either just before or just after
37 you joined Perseco?
38 A. I do not know that. I can only say that they had
39 started at that time.
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41 Q. In the first meetings you had with them was the impression
42 you got that this was a new development that had just been
43 started?
44 A. Yes, it was relatively new because the opening of the
45 plant was in January 1992, as we have just established.
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47 Q. So it would have been after the plant officially opened,
48 whenever that was?
49 A. I do not know.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He said he does not know.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Just the last question really, whenever it was that
54 you cannot remember or identify, it would not have been the
55 beginning of 1991 or 1990 or 1989?
56 A. I could not tell you. I really would not know. It is
57 as simple as that.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ask any question which you really want to ask
60 before 1 o'clock, otherwise we will break off and you can
