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     1        I think he was talking about the number of bags that were
     2        put outside.
     3
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That was not the question he was asked; it
     5        may be what the answer was.
     6
     7   MR. MORRIS:  Can I just go back then and start again?
     8        (To the witness):  When you had the old system of the bags
     9        on their own, not compactable -----
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us pick up where the question was.
    12        Mr. Morris asked you how many bags of rubbish are collected
    13        on an average per day by your environment/index.html">litter patrols?
    14        A.  All right.  Well, they would often, as they did one
    15        trash walk they would keep -- we have a lift area outside
    16        the restaurant.  They would often fill the bag maybe a
    17        third full or a quarter full, and then when they came to
    18        the next trash walk they would take that bag back out
    19        again.
    20
    21   Q.   Mr. Morris was asking you at the end of a pretty average
    22        day how many bin liners of refuse collected by the environment/index.html">litter
    23        patrols would you have -- just doing your best to give a
    24        stab.
    25        A.  In the winter, four or five; in the summer, possibly up
    26        to 10.
    27
    28   Q.   Is that post-barrow ones where they have been compacted
    29        down or -----
    30        A.  This is pre, before they have been compacted.
    31
    32   Q.   Pre, this is when they just went round with a black bag in
    33        one hand?
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  So are you saying that your environment/index.html">litter pickers that go
    37        out on a trash walk every half hour all around those
    38        streets on average may come back only with a third of a bin
    39        bag full of environment/index.html">litter?  That is in the old days with the
    40        non-compacted environment/index.html">litter?
    41        A.  It is possible.  I mean, I have not measured it in any
    42        way.  I have only seen it in the day-to-day running of the
    43        restaurant.  You know, I cannot bring it down to the amount
    44        of times I saw them with a full bag or a third bag.  I am
    45        not sure I have seen with full bags and I have seen them
    46        with half bags and third bags.  I cannot give an exact
    47        amount of rubbish that they collected from the streets over
    48        a period of a day.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you want to ask any more questions on that 
    51        specific topic or do you want to break off there? 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  We might as well carry on just a little bit with
    54        this topic, if that is OK?
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, certainly, but you pick a moment
    57        convenient to yourself within the next few minutes to stop.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS (To the witness):  Have you done a trash walk
    60        yourself?

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