6. 6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Bin Collections

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:08 pm on 18 January 2017.

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Photo of Mr Simon Thomas Mr Simon Thomas Plaid Cymru 5:08, 18 January 2017

Thank you, Presiding Officer. And I do move the motion, and I am trying to pick out the gems from the opening speech of this debate. It’s January. We have local elections in May. I think we’re going to have lot more of this. [Interruption.] Let’s all prepare ourselves. I’m sure that Plaid Cymru will bring forward a debate on our local elections at some stage as well. But I think that it does seem to be that this debate is very much targeted on Conwy and certain issues in north Wales. [Interruption.] But, you know, there is a target—[Interruption.] Let me get started, at least. [Laughter.] Hang on, hang on. There is a reasonable—towards the end of Janet Finch-Saunders’s speech, we got somewhere. If we are looking at a genuine attempt to reduce packaging in our lives, a genuine attempt to not just get rid of Styrofoam but actually ban it, and if we are looking at a genuine attempt to get more people to recycle, so we aim at that national aim that we have within Wales of a zero-waste nation, and a particular target of 70 per cent, which the Welsh Government has—