Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 10

     
     1        in relation to Lin Pac they were the first to open a
     2        polystyrene recycling facility and then you said "in 1992"
     3        with a question in your voice?
     4        A.  Yes.
     5
     6   Q.   In Europe?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   When you said "open the recycling facility", did you mean
    10        so that it produced recycled polystyrene at the end; what
    11        did you mean?
    12        A.  Yes.
    13
    14   Q.   So it has been producing recycled polystyrene on further
    15        use since 1992, you think, or is it much more recent?
    16        A.  The first phase -- this I am doing from memory -- it
    17        could have been end of or beginning of 1993 or end of
    18        1992.  I am not sure about that, when they opened it
    19        actually.
    20
    Q.   There may be a distinction between when it begins to
    22        accumulate waste, do you see, and when it actually begins
    23        to produce something at the other end?
    24        A.  Okay.  They, obviously, started producing and testing,
    25        trying out, before they officially opened.  The first time
    26        I actually visited was before they had opened.  But it was
    27        at that point in time functional.
    28
    29   MR. RAMPTON:  You also mentioned, I think, in the course of one
    30        of your answers just now that the sorting of the
    31        polystyrene foam waste has to be done manually or is done
    32        manually, I should say; is that right?
    33        A.  Part of it is so there is a rough sorting where you
    34        throw out big contaminations, metal strips -- strange
    35        really, larger dead cats -- etcetera, that sort of thing,
    36        and you throw those out at the beginning.  That is often a
    37        manual sorting process.  They have actually shown us
    38        pictures of what they find in that collected material which
    39        sometimes comes from post-consumer sources.
    40
         So, you get a rough sorting, then you basically keep a
    42        mixture of several plastics and they have developed this,
    43        their processing, the washing and separating phase, that is
    44        phase No. 2 which goes in then, where they separate the
    45        various plastics based on their density in water.
    46
    47   Q.   So that can be done mechanically, can it?
    48        A.  That is a mechanical process.
    49
    50   Q.   That is a mechanical process? 
    51        A.  Yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   So that the washing, for example, if it comes from a
    54        restaurant, gets rid all the sort of food and muck like
    55        that, does it?
    56        A.  Yes.
    57
    58   Q.   One most hope, yes.
    59        A.  Yes.
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