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1 with carrying a bag, unless you sit on it, it is quite hard
2 to compact it.
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4 Q. So before when you had the non-compactable system when the
5 bags often got full up, would it be that the environment/index.html">litter picker
6 would go out and once he had got a full bag they would come
7 back to the store? That is what generally happened, was it
8 not?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. So at that time, if you were going out half hourly, yes?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. And your stores opened from when?
15 A. From 7.00 in the morning.
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17 Q. Till?
18 A. Until midnight.
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20 Q. Which is 17 hours -- someone can challenge me on that if it
21 is not true -- would it be fair to say that there would
22 have been roughly about 34 bags a day collected at that
23 time?
24 A. No.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why do you say that?
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28 MR. MORRIS: Well, every half an hour someone is going out and
29 getting a bag full and bringing it back.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, he has not said. He has said there were
32 occasions when more than a bag was collected and he said on
33 average, doing his best in what I should imagine are rather
34 difficult circumstances to make an accurate estimate, 10
35 bin liners a day.
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37 MR. MORRIS: What Mr. Stump has said was that they could compact
38 it now whereas before they could not, which is one of the
39 reasons they changed -- (To the witness): That is one of
40 the reasons you have changed over -----
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The 10 bin liners a day, was that since you
43 have had the barrow where you can use your trash mash, or
44 was it when you were going around with your dustbin liner
45 picking up stuff?
46 A. I am confused on whether you mean the trash that is
47 picked up by the bin men or the trash that is collected by
48 the people in the dining area.
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50 Q. No. We are just talking about -- this question was about
51 environment/index.html">litter patrols and how many bin liners they collected in an
52 average day. You made what might be the sensible point
53 that it would depend on the time of year, but being asked
54 to do your best to give an average you said about 10 bin
55 liners. Was that in the old days or the post-barrow days?
56 A. Sorry, I never said 10. I did not make a -----
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58 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I had thought at the time that your
59 Lordship or Mr. Morris, whoever it was, and the witness
60 were at cross-purposes or, rather, Mrs. Brinley-Codd did.
