Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 32


     
     1        factory or, if the factory did not have the ability to deal
     2        with that amount, would it just have been disposed of?
     3        A.  For Lin Pac, that amount at that time would all have
     4        been processed by them.
     5
     6   Q.   Right.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So, what are saying is that all the
     9        polystyrene waste which came from the four Manchester
    10        restaurants would have been processed by Lin Pac; is that
    11        what you are saying?
    12        A.  Yes.
    13
    14   Q.   In addition to whatever?
    15        A.  Allowing for waste, what happens during that process
    16        which is probably ---
    17
    18   Q.   I understand that.
    19        A.  -- negligible.
    20
    21   Q.   But apart from waste in the processing, it was all
    22        processed by Lin Pac in addition to any other waste which
    23        they may have got from any other sources?
    24        A.  Oh, they did.
    25
    26   Q.   They did.
    27        A.  They did get waste from other sources as well.
    28
    29   Q.   You know what a bean bag is, do you?
    30        A.  Yes, those are the big fluffy bags.
    31
    32   Q.   You can buy vast quantities of little pellets to put in
    33        bean bags if you want to make them.  Is that what the
    34        granulate looks like or may be you do not know?
    35        A.  No, that looks more like -----
    36
    37   Q.   If have a split it goes everywhere but that is -----
    38        A.  Yes.  That is a foam bead.
    39
    40   Q.   That is a foam bead, is it?
    41        A.  Yes.  The granulate polystyrene bead is a little
    42        plastic bead, a solid, hard bead of plastic.  It looks
    43        almost like virgin polystyrene bead unless -- the only
    44        difference is it may have some colour, it may be greyish,
    45        it may be blackish, it may be whatever colour went in.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Does it have to be reblown?
    48        A.  To be made into foam, yes.
    49
    50   Q.   So it becomes a kind of virgin material again once it is 
    51        recycled? 
    52        A.  Sorry? 
    53
    54   Q.   It becomes a virgin material again once it is recycled?
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am afraid your terminology -- it is not
    57        virgin material by definition but it is, effectively, the
    58        same, is it?
    59        A.  It is the same up to a certain standard.  It has got
    60        lower quality characteristics, as I said earlier, about the

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