I welcome the Cabinet Secretary to her post and welcome her statement and her commitment to a circular economy. Obviously, she has concentrated on recycling in this statement, and I note that she raises the potential for further recycling from the analysis of the content of the black bags, which shows there is much more there that could be recycled. However, I do think that we should, in conjunction with continuing to pursue what can be recycled, be looking at reuse, and we should be looking at prevention of waste. I know in the previous Assembly we did have quite a bit of discussion here about a deposit-return bottle scheme—I think William Powell raised it at every debate we had—and I note that in your reply to Simon Thomas you said that you are discussing this with the Scottish Minister and seeing what their experiences are in Scotland. Obviously, you would be analysing it closely, but it would be a very direct way of reusing and would prevent an awful lot of the waste that there actually is, when analysis is made of what causes litter, for example. So, I am very pleased that that is being considered.

The other point I wanted to raise was the issue of garden waste, because I am always very concerned, particularly in the country, when you see garden waste being put out for collection by local authorities, and I wondered how much emphasis is able to be put on composting and trying to prevent this, which really seems to me quite an unnecessary thing for local authorities to be doing. We should be concentrating on encouraging garden waste to be recycled within the garden itself. I understand it in a town—that is, you can’t do that in a town with people in small gardens or yards or things like that, maybe, but in the country, it just seems to me not a good thing to be doing.