Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 75
1 1992?
2 A. No, it had not; I am not sure when the Nottingham test
3 finished but it certainly was relaunched in 1992.
4
5 Q. So the plant opened in January 1992 and it was not until
6 May 1992 that it started getting waste?
7 A. I am sorry, say that again? The plant opened?
8
9 Q. In January 1992.
10 A. Yes.
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12 Q. And it was in May 1992 that the trial programme of actually
13 recycling the polystyrene started?
14 A. Yes.
15
16 Q. Right. When did the one at the Garden Festival finish?
17 A. Well, it was a short-term. I believe it just ran for
18 the summer of that year, so it would have finished in the
19 autumn sometime.
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21 Q. And the involvement of Manchester stores?
22 A. Was continuous.
23
24 Q. From when, though?
25 A. From after, from the end of the Garden Festival.
26
27 Q. Immediately after it?
28 A. It was continuous. It says: "We continued the
29 programme in four", it should be five, "Manchester
30 restaurants which are still ongoing".
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32 Q. If there is customer acceptance in Manchester which you
33 said there is, is that right?
34 A. I said it was improving.
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36 Q. So what does that mean?
37 A. It has improved over Nottingham.
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39 Q. But in terms of "acceptance", what does that mean?
40 A. We have not measured the volumes of waste recently, so
41 I cannot give you accurate figures on that, but we do know
42 that as time goes by people get more used to separating
43 their waste so there has been an improvement.
44
45 Q. Right. What is the position then if people do not separate
46 the waste? Does somebody have to separate it at the plant
47 or something?
48 A. Yes, there is a separation unit in the recycling plant.
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50 Q. Is that mechanical or?
51 A. No, it is by hand.
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53 Q. If the acceptance rate you feel is OK now -----
54 A. No, I did not say that. I said it is improving. I did
55 not say it was OK at any time.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think that may have been my fault because
58 in what I put to Mr. Morris I suggested he had got what he
59 had wanted because it was working in Manchester. You are,
60 in fact, not accepting that it is working; it is better
