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     1        customers of the take-out out of the restaurant, take-away,
     2        and also the amount of customers that would come into the
     3        restaurant.
     4
     5   Q.   Roughly speaking, in your experience, as between customers
     6        who eat in in the store ---
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   -- and customers who buy their food, take it away, and eat
    10        it outside the store, what is the proportion?
    11        A.  On average in the year, it is just over 50 per cent of
    12        customers take away, and this would go up to approximately
    13        60 per cent in the summer months, from June to September.
    14
    15   Q.   Can we safely assume that, so far as the spread of environment/index.html">litter
    16        in neighbouring streets may be concerned, it is the 50 per
    17        cent take away segment that we are chiefly concerned with?
    18        A.  Yes, because the customers would use the internal bins
    19        if they ate inside the restaurant.
    20
    Q.   I want to ask you a little bit, first of all, if I may, in
    22        a moment about how you deal with internal packaging waste,
    23        but first I would like to ask you this:  Have you any idea
    24        in the average busy day how many take-away customers your
    25        store at Kings Road will serve?
    26        A.  It would depend on the time of the year.  The busiest
    27        periods on, say, our busiest day, a Saturday, we could have
    28        up to approximately 1500 customers taking away from our
    29        restaurant on a busy day.
    30
    31   Q.   Can we safely assume that the average take-away purchase
    32        might consist of, let us say, a sandwich in a clamshell, a
    33        drink in a polystyrene cup, a plastic lid and a straw, is
    34        that about right so far?
    35        A.  Yes.
    36
    37   Q.   Would there often also be a carton of french fries?
    38        A.  Yes, there would.
    39
    40   Q.   Would all that go into a carry-out bag?
         A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   Would the take-away customer be offered the availability of
    44        napkins if he wanted them?
    45        A.  He would be, yes.
    46
    47   Q.   So can we put into our take-away carry out bag some napkins
    48        or a napkin, a clamshell, a cup, a straw, a lid for the cup
    49        and a fry carton?
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Is that a sort of fair average? 
    53        A.  On average, yes.
    54
    55   Q.   I do not know how many items of possible environment/index.html">litter that makes,
    56        but on a busy Saturday you would multiply that by 1500; is
    57        that right?
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   First, I want to ask you, before we come to trash walks and