Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 74
1 whole Nottingham experiment?
2 A. Yes.
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4 Q. What do you mean by "poor"?
5 A. That we would not have expected to have found so much
6 other waste in the polystyrene bin. We would have expected
7 to have found some but not as much as was found.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It must depend to some extent how it is
10 presented to the customer?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. The difference between just having a polystyrene bin and no
14 other and having two next to each other, one polystyrene
15 waste and the other waste. Can you help us about that or
16 not?
17 A. Well, as I said earlier, I did not visit the project.
18 As far as I can gather the bin was labelled "polystyrene
19 only". The other bins were labelled "all other waste".
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21 MS. STEEL: Could it be that the weight of things other than
22 polystyrene could be bits of food that people had left
23 behind in their boxes?
24 A. It could be, yes. It was not necessarily so, but it
25 could be.
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27 MR. MORRIS: So if we were to draw any implications about
28 customer acceptability from what you have said, we would
29 actually have to have further information, would we not?
30 A. Yes, probably.
31
32 Q. Is there anybody in the company who is going to give
33 evidence who would know about this?
34 A. Yes, I would think -----
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Might I suggest that you really have got what
37 you want once you establish it is working in Manchester,
38 because it shows if you persist it can work. Manchester is
39 showing that?
40 A. It is improving, yes.
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42 MS. STEEL: The plant in Cheshire, that was initially taking
43 polystyrene from four Manchester restaurants, is that
44 right?
45 A. I believe it to be five.
46
47 Q. Well, on page 4 of your statement it has four?
48 A. I know, but I believed it to be five because that is
49 not correct.
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51 Q. OK. They are all in the Manchester region?
52 A. Yes.
53
54 Q. What was the trial programme of recycling at the Garden
55 Festival in Wales of polystyrene? Was that exactly the
56 same?
57 A. It was the same programme. Yes, it was really
58 relaunching the programme as much as anything.
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60 Q. Do you mean it had not continued non-stop from January
