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Other Assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 29, 2012
Other Assets, Noncurrent [Abstract] |
Schedule of other assets | Other assets as of December 29, 2012, and December 31, 2011, consist of the following:
| December 29, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Deposits | 376 |  |  | $ | 400 |
Recycling contract, net | 259 |  |  | 339 |
Deferred financing costs, net | 279 |  |  | 476 |
Patent costs | 21 |  |  | 17 |
| $ | 935 |  |  | 1,232 |
Schedule of expected recycling contract amortization expense | Estimated amortization expense over the next four years, the remaining life, of our recycling contract is as follows:
2013 | $ | 80 |
2014 | 80 |
2015 | 80 |
2016 | 19 |

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