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     1        density, the moisture content of various products, and the
              fact they are being burned in the presence of one
     2        another.  Those variables will affect the temperature of
              the burn and the degree to which oxygen is present during
     3        that burn.
 
     4   Q.   In all parts of the incineration?
              A.  That is right.
     5
         Q.   The waste stream:  When you say that 1.3 billion cubic
     6        feet (which may be a conservative estimate) is
              contributing to the waste stream, is the waste stream more
     7        than just the landfill, the final end, or is it a
              process?  When you say "the waste stream" do you just mean
     8        how it ends up or do you mean it is collection, storage,
              transportation?
     9        A.  Yes, I mean all of those points in the process of
              disposal.
    10
         Q.   Right.  Will there be implications for volume?
         A.  At each point, yes, that is correct.
 
    12   Q.   In terms of, for example, transport use?
              A.  That is correct.
    13
         Q.   Space taken up which could be used for something else?
    14        A.  That is right.
 
    15   Q.   Your approach, as a research analyst in this, not just
              this campaign but in this organisation, Citizens
    16        Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, you said was a life
              cycle approach?
    17        A.  That is correct.  We looked -----
 
    18   Q.   On a product?
              A.  We looked at the -- we look to identify problems at
    19        each point in the life cycle of the product -- in this
              case a foam food package.
    20
         Q.   Was that a pioneering approach?
         A.  To the best of my knowledge, it was one of the first
              times anybody had gone out and tried to assemble a full
    22        body of research and literature related to the entire life
              cycle of a product.
    23
         Q.   Is this approach now widely taken up by other researchers?
    24        A.  It is much more widely in practice today than it was
              when we began the McToxics campaign, that is correct.
    25
         Q.   Do you feel your approach has been vindicated in the light 
    26        of all the developments? 
              A.  I think it has been vindicated.  I think it is also a 
    27        general -- a general point to be made that the
              Clearinghouse and its research on styrofoam or polystyrene
    28        foam food packages was in place at a time when these
              studies were becoming increasingly important; and that our
    29        research sparked -- our campaign sparked the growth of the
              whole industry of consultants and engineers who are now
    30        looking at these issues in a more precise fashion.