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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It does not appear there. That is why he
4 said that the question "recycle percentage" applies just to
5 the boxes, etc., that the items are carried in, and in fact
6 the question uses the word "box".
7 A. We did not ask for a description of recycled or
8 percentage of recycled in this questionnaire for the
9 packaging item itself, because that we know. That is
10 determined in a specification, for instance.
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12 MR. MORRIS: I would like to know what the percentage of
13 recycled content of the corrugated transport packaging was
14 as far as the ones that answered those details. Can you
15 remember how many countries filled that in, so you got some
16 kind of idea?
17 A. All suppliers filled this in.
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19 Q. Yes, but in terms of the "if known" whether it was
20 post-consumer or post-industrial recycled content of the
21 recycled percentage in the transportation packaging?
22 A. No, round about ----
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24 Q. Half the countries filled it in or how many?
25 A. This document, around about 150 went out to different
26 suppliers and they all filled them in for various
27 products. I do not recall all the recycled percentages in
28 my head that they sent back, no.
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30 Q. Can we then ask through the court for ----
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. You can only ask the witness.
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34 MR. MORRIS: He does have the documents, he says he still has
35 documents, so can we ask for a digest, at least a summary?
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How long will it take you to do that?
38 A. A summary of the recycled content you will find in the
39 report.
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41 Q. What I am asking you now is how simple or difficult would
42 it be, if it were thought desirable, to find what
43 proportion of the 150 suppliers or however many answered
44 actually divided their percentage as requested into
45 post-industrial and post-consumer, and then working from
46 that how simple or difficult would it be to work out
47 overall percentages?
48 A. It can be worked out. We have those documents.
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50 Q. Yes, but what is involved, do you see, because if it is
51 relevant there are two approaches. You could either do
52 some sums or someone could do them on your behalf, or if
53 the documentation is still available and there is no
54 objection to its disclosure, it could all be given to the
55 Defendants and they could try to do the sums. I have no
56 idea of the size of the problem. I cannot balance it
57 against whatever may be said about the benefit of the
58 work. Do you know yourself?
59 A. No, I do not know what benefit it would do.
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