Minister, can I ask you with regard to recycling rates in Wales? One of the best-performing local authorities was Conwy, and it has managed to achieve its success in recycling with a current recycling regime with a trolley box that is collected on a weekly basis, with different recyclates that are collected at the kerbside and separated at the kerbside, and then a black bin collection on a fortnightly basis. Now, you may be aware that the local authority is planning to move to a three-week cycle across the local authority area, and is about to conduct a pilot also, which it intends to commence in the summer months, of a four-weekly collection cycle.

I’m very concerned about that pilot and the impact that it might have on encouraging positive recycling behaviour amongst the local community. There’s a lot of concern that that might lead to environmental problems from those who don’t engage in recycling in the way that you and I would want them to, and there’s no provision within the proposals to deal with pet waste, which of course can be particularly unpleasant if left festering in black bins for a long time. So, I just wonder, Minister, what guidance you might be able to issue, as the Welsh Government, to ensure that these things are catered for properly, so that if there is a shift to a four-weekly general refuse collection service, that doesn’t have an adverse impact on the wider environment, upon local communities, and indeed on the visitor economy, particularly in a place like Conwy where visitors are essential in giving that particular area an economic boost?