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     1   Q.   Do these tables contain any information about corrugate
     2        transport packaging?
     3        A.  No, they do not.
     4
     5   Q.   Do we find information about corrugated transport packaging
     6        on pages 7.9 and 7.10 of this same report?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   Can I ask you to look at 7.10 while you have it there?  You
    10        write:  "The overall use in corrugated has risen
    11        considerably over the last two years".  This is written,
    12        when, 1993?
    13        A.  This must be somewhere in the beginning of 1993 the
    14        report is issued.
    15
    16   Q.   "17 and 31 per cent respectively.  This has to be weighed
    17        against an overall increase in the use of recycled
    18        material, which resulted in a decrease in the use of virgin
    19        corrugated".  We can see that illustrated, can we not, at
    20        the top of the page where the dark black is the virgin
    21        content?
    22        A.  Yes.
    23
    24   Q.   On the left-hand side it is absolute figures in thousands
    25        of kilograms, is it?
    26        A.  Yes, it is.
    27
    28   Q.   "The recycled content went from on average less than 35 per
    29        cent", would that be in 1990 then, according to that chart,
    30        or does it mean 1991?  I was not sure.
    31        A.  1990.
    32
    33   Q.   1990.  One can see, at any rate, some of that column on
    34        1990 is hatched which appears to mean corrugated recycled?
    35        A.  Yes, it is.
    36
    37   Q.   Am I right that it is about 500,000 kgs?
    38        A.  Yes, from what I can read from this, yes.
    39
    40   Q.   Roughly?
    41        A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   "The recycled content went from on average of less than 35
    44        per cent to about 71 per cent (current minimum requirement
    45        is 50 per cent).  The shorter fibres in recycled material
    46        makes it necessary to increase the thickness of the
    47        corrugated to get similar quality features".  There is a
    48        sentence about polyethylene foil, is that right, is that
    49        what "PE" stands for?
    50        A.  Polyethylene foil, yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Can I ask you, you write there:  "The recycled content went 
    53        from an average of less than 35 per cent to about 71 per
    54        cent (current minimum requirement is 50 per cent)", and
    55        this is in early 1993 reflecting 1992.  To what extent do
    56        the manufacturers of your recycled fibre products exceed
    57        the minimum requirement which they appear to have done
    58        here, the minimum requirement was 50 per cent?
    59        A.  And the current minimum requirement is still 50 per
    60        cent at this point in time.  They have still -----

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