Day 009 - 08 Jul 94 - Page 73


     
     1   Q.   Is it worth noting then the left-hand column or the middle
              column is post-consumer waste?
     2        A.  Yes.
 
     3   Q.   The right-hand column is post-industrial which I take it
              to mean is pre-consumer?
     4        A.  Yes, they are synonymous.
 
     5   Q.   I think, as you told us that is stuff -- I use the term
              very loosely -- which is, as it were, swept up from the
     6        floor of the saw mill or paper mill, or whatever it may
              be?
     7        A.  Yes.
 
     8   Q.   Which should otherwise go directly into the solid waste
              stream?
     9        A.  Yes.
 
    10   Q.   Do we see that for the napkins, for example, post-consumer
              waste was 8 per cent against 63 per cent?
    11        A.  As an overall average at that time, yes.
 
    12   Q.   I understand that, because as you told us there are
              different manufacturers using different combinations or
    13        proportions.  Carry-out bags 0 and 50; corrugated shipping
              containers, an introduction in 1990, 35 against zero;
    14        in-store plastic serving trays 50 per cent post-consumer
              against zero; sandwich wraps, the other way round, 0
    15        against 37; jumbo roll toilet tissue, again an
              introduction in 1990, 0 against 65; carry-out pulp trays,
    16        on the other hand, not a new introduction, 98
              post-consumer as against 2 per cent post-industrial?
    17        A.  Yes.
 
    18   Q.   Happy Meals cartons 35 post-consumer, 65 post-industrial,
              making, I think, 100 per cent.
    19
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  All those three and the next one are 100 per
    20        cent.
 
    21   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, they are 100 per cent recycled, are they
              not?
    22
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Carry-out pulp trays, Happy Meal cartons and
    23        tray liners?
              A.  Yes.
    24
         MR. RAMPTON:  Happy Meal cartons 35 and 65; tray liners 65 and
    25        35, the average balance working out 53 per cent in favour
              of post-consumer waste as against 37 per cent pre-consumer 
    26        waste? 
              A.  Correct. 
    27
         Q.   Given that there are, I think, four introductions in 1990,
    28        but that one of the introductions is heavily weighted in
              favour of pre-consumer waste, that is to say toilet roll
    29        tissue ----
 
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Excuse me, what does the average recycled
              content mean, because it comes to 90 per cent?

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