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1 in the top left hand corner and a chemical equation in the
bottom right-hand corner. It is an extract from -- can
2 you give the details?
A. It is an extract from the Encyclopaedia of Food
3 Packaging. It is a document that is more likely to be
found in certain departments of organisations that
4 manufacture and produce foam packaging or in
universities. Without getting into detail, I would say
5 this particular document refers to the variations in the
manufacture of foam.
6
It refers to different types of foam packaging that are
7 also elaborated in other materials that are in this what
we would call "fact pack". It describes with some clarity
8 in a brief sense the nature of manufacturing of foam.
9 The point is, with regard to this document, that this kind
of material was widely circulated to local community
10 activists who were, at their leisure, able to review this
kind of material and develop their own arguments regarding
11 this component of the foam food packaging process and
life-span.
12
Q. Are there any particular parts you would like to refer the
13 court to?
A. I think that, in general, the point that I am trying
14 to make here is this research was available to Grassroots
activists.
15
MR. JUSTICE BELL: But what part of the sheet is it that you
16 pray in aid to what you have said?
A. I am sorry, what part of the sheet is it that I am
17 referring to in aid to what I am saying?
18 Q. Yes.
A. I guess I need to clarify my point here. The document
19 itself stands as an example of the kind of material that
was circulated to Grassroots activists.
20
MR. MORRIS: So it is not a specific sentence; it is just an
21 example of the work you are doing?
A. This is an example of the kind of material that was
22 engaged, used by Grassroots activists in their campaign to
get McDonald's to stop using foam. It is an example of
23 the kind of -- it is an example of the kind of information
that people were prepared to address when they took on
24 this issue.
25 Again this is at the point of manufacture that McDonald's
foam food package is produced. It describes certain
26 dimensions to that process. But, aside from the
manufacturing process and the way in which foam food
27 packaging is produced, we are primarily concerned with the
emissions and so forth related to foam food packaging
28 production.
29 Q. Looking at the production process in a little more detail,
you say there was specific, shall we say, chemicals. I do
30 not know myself, but there is styrene -- is that correct
-- used in the process?
