Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 45
1 six piece or the nine piece?
2 A. It does not but on the other one it does. On the one
3 of 8th March it does say "recycled" and -----
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It says for those hipped on 8th March it says
6 "recycled" and it is the same item number on 26th March?
7 A. On 26th.
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9 Q. Is that your point?
10 A. Yes.
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12 MS. STEEL: Right. What about straws, are you responsible for
13 straws?
14 A. Yes, we are.
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16 Q. They do not have any recycled content, do they?
17 A. No, they do not. None of the plastic items do. Straws
18 are made of polypropylene and they do not contain any
19 recycled material.
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21 Q. Do you have any responsibility for officer paper at all?
22 A. No, other than what we do in our own office.
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24 Q. The promotional material that you are talking about, that
25 would include happy hats, would that be right?
26 A. Yes.
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28 Q. What does promotional material include?
29 A. I could not tell you what it all includes because we
30 are not responsible for them. I just would not know.
31 Examples would be these -- the biggest example would
32 probably be these tray liners because they often have text
33 on them so that is why they are different country by
34 country.
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36 Q. The packaging that is used, does that not have text on it
37 as well?
38 A. Some of them do. One of the things, one of the sort of
39 text that packaging has on them is a recycling symbol or a
40 recycled content symbol, but that actually has a text in
41 nine different languages on it. In general, we try to
42 avoid language because that gets us in trouble with some
43 countries. You try to produce a package which you can use
44 everywhere. That has got advantages in if something goes
45 wrong in one country and for whatever reason, a strike or
46 whatever, or transport, there is something in
47 transportation which does not work out, that you can switch
48 to a supplier in another country.
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50 Q. That is fairly standard practice, is it? If there are any
51 problems with supply, you just switch to another country to
52 get the packaging?
53 A. Yes, it is, if there is the possibility for it because
54 you have been able to standardise, which is definitely not
55 everywhere the case.
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57 Q. Does any European packaging go outside Europe?
58 A. Outside of Europe as in Morocco? Yes.
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60 Q. So it would only be the countries that you include -----
