I thank the Member for her questions. You’re right—you heard me say to Simon Thomas that we’ve been very closely working with the Scottish Government, and certainly officials are watching what they do. They’re going to come forward with some advice that I’ll consider certainly before the end of the year, but it is a very complicated process to bring forward a deposit-return scheme from scratch. I think it would be a major undertaking and we’d have to work out whether the costs and benefits were balanced. I think I mentioned that plastic is quite hard to recycle. If you think about it, most drinks bottles now, the glass ones, have been replaced by plastic, and that cannot be used practically.

In relation to composting, I think most local authorities carried out campaigns to promote home composting to householders. If you think about it, I think most people would produce too much garden waste to then manage their own compost bins. So, I think people do really value the service that local authorities provide in relation to taking away surplus garden waste, and if that compost then can benefit other gardeners, you can see the process there. I think what I would really want to avoid is people burning their garden waste, because that can often give off very toxic smoke.