<p>Polystyrene Food Packaging</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 3:04 pm on 23 November 2016.

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Photo of Lesley Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Labour 3:04, 23 November 2016

I've now found the statistics that I have about polystyrene in particular. It was in 2015-16 that Keep Wales Tidy undertook this survey, and they found 5.2 per cent litter was polystyrene, but most of it, 3.2 per cent, consisted of other polystyrene—so, not just the packaging. But 2 per cent of it was the fast food items. I'm very happy to look packaging as a whole, right across the scope of all packaging, because I think, you know, if we could reduce packaging, that would help so much, and whilst we're ahead in recycling, there is still, we know, 50 per cent of black bin waste that could be recycled. So, we need to look at the whole spectrum of packaging going forward.