Day 063 - 07 Dec 94 - Page 38
1 I know. Mr. Van Erp, there are three packages there; one
2 contains post-consumer polystyrene foam chips, flakes --
3 can I call them that for a better word?
4 A. Yes.
5
6 Q. That is, broadly speaking, white with some speckles in it?
7 A. Yes.
8
9 Q. There is another one which is called HIPS flakes or
10 something like that?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. That is considerably heavier (if one picks the two up and
14 compares them) than the polystyrene foam one?
15 A. Yes.
16
17 Q. What is the difference between those two packages?
18 A. The foam is -- first of all, those two packages are
19 from the middle, from in the middle of the process of
20 recycling.
21
22 Q. We have gone past the manual sorting.
23 A. We have gone past the manual sorting. You have put
24 them in that cleaner separator stage. So they have been
25 cleaned and they have been separated in the various
26 fractions, in this case, polystyrene fraction which is --
27 sorry, a foam polystyrene fraction which is very light and
28 a high impact polystyrene fraction which is somewhat
29 heavier. That generally comes from -- just to give you an
30 idea -- the foam polystyrene comes, in general, from foam
31 packaging such as McDonald's; the high impact polystyrene
32 generally comes from packaging such as yoghurt pots or
33 dairy containers.
34
35 Q. Those are all Lin Pac packages, are they?
36 A. This is all Lin Pac, coming from the Lin Pac recycling
37 plant, so there are intermediate stages.
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39 MS. STEEL: Can I just ask, the high impact stuff, is that the
40 one that is called "HIPS"?
41 A. Yes. "HIPS" is for high impact polystyrene.
42
43 Q. That is from yoghurt pots?
44 A. Yoghurt pots, dairy containers, that sort of thing,
45 yes.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: Then the little great pellets are what?
48 A. And the little grey pellets are the end products after
49 these flakes which are the end product of the
50 separating/washing stage, when they are being reextruded,
51 and that is, then you end up with pellets like the little
52 grey pellets. Basically, everything is mixed there so that
53 the colour disperses itself and then you get a light
54 greyish or a little bit more dark.
55
56 Q. I do not know whether you had plasticine as a boy in
57 Holland, did you?
58 A. Sorry?
59
60 Q. It was a kind of a modelling clay, plasticine?
