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         MR. RAMPTON:  That is true, it does.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  90 per cent of what?  If it came to 100
     3        I could see that of all recycled content X per cent was
              post-consumer and Y per cent was pre-consumer.  Maybe
     4        there is some loss allowed for there?
              A.  I would have to take my calculator out again to figure
     5        this out.  What I would think it is, it is not an average
              of averages.  I do not think it is that.
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         Q.   Could the other 10 per cent be factory waste, off-cuts and
     7        things of that kind which are not included on the basis
              that post-industrial waste is between leaving the
     8        manufacturer of the box, for instance, and before the
              customer?
     9        A.  Here is what I think this represents.  I think it
              represents, if you look at the detail behind this that is
    10        not here, I think taking all those items; it is adding up
              the post-consumer waste, the actual amounts and pounds and
    11        then saying that that is 53 per cent.  It is adding up the
              actual post-industrial saying that is 37 per cent.
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         Q.   But of what?
    13        A.  Of all -- if you were just to look at the
              post-consumer column, it is 53 per cent; the balance would
    14        be not post-consumer.  I cannot give any -- it is not
              clear to me.
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         MR. RAMPTON:  I agree with you.  Can you do, again, what you
    16        said you would do in relation to some figures of
              Mr. Kouchoukos, can you when you get home have another
    17        look at this and tell us when you are satisfied for
              certain what those average recycled content figures mean,
    18        send a letter?
              A.  Yes, I will.
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         MR. MORRIS:  Can I point out that the figure for 1991 given in
    20        that chart we saw before was 51 per cent total recycled
              content.  In this chart it does seem to mean that the
    21        total recycled content would be 90 per cent.
              A.  No.  This is only looking at those items that are
    22        using recycled content.
 
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  I think the average recycled content
              meant all that which is recycled, 53 per cent was came
    24        from post-consumer waste, and 37 came from pre-consumer
              waste.  My problem is that that cannot be right because it
    25        only adds up to 90 per cent, provided the second column is
              pre-consumer in the sense of everything which becomes 
    26        waste before it falls into the hands of a customer in one 
              of your stores.  If that were so it should come to a total 
    27        of a 100.  It does not.  We do not know what the
              explanation is.  Maybe it is that the second column,
    28        post-industrial waste, does not include that element of
              waste which falls on to the box makers floor that is
    29        recycled.  But we do not know.  Mr. Rampton is asking you
              to try to find out.
    30        A.  I will do that.  I will review all of our information
              on this.

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