No, I have not taken a further intervention.

We have to be proud of our record in Wales as the best in the UK and the fourth best in Europe on recycling. So, in order to stay focused on achieving our target of at least 70 per cent by 2025, we have got to observe the three Rs. In case anybody isn’t aware of what the three Rs are, they are reduce, reuse and recycle.

There is no such thing as throwing away. There is a cost to disposing of waste, whatever method is used. So, our first obligation has to be to reduce the amount of waste that we have, whether that is the shocking amount of food waste—one third of all food is thrown away before it even reaches the table. And as Suzy Davies said, in the context of increasing food poverty and the record number of admissions to hospital in Abertawe Bro Morgannwg for malnutrition, this is a really sobering context in which we need to discuss the need to reduce food waste. I applaud the work that the Government is doing, employing WRAP and really educating people on how we absolutely should not be wasting food.

So, number two, we also obviously need to have conversations with the packaging industry to ensure that they are reducing the amount of waste that they generate that’s unnecessary.

In terms of reusing, the Plaid amendment talks about banning Styrofoam packaging, and I agree. Tomorrow, I have a meeting with one of the high-street coffee-shop companies and I commend the work that they have done to encourage their customers to bring their own containers, using a 25 per cent reduction in the cost of a cup of coffee to get customers to change their behaviour. It’s a really effective way of people bringing their own cup, getting the cup of coffee and then obviously reusing it. I absolutely agree that Styrofoam cups and, indeed, plastic-coated paper cups are absolutely abominable because neither of them can be recyclable just by definition. So, we absolutely have to bear down on that.

We absolutely have to think of new ways in which we can reduce waste. For example, I’d like to see a deposit-and-return scheme on all drinks so we don’t have to waste public and community resources on picking up the litter that is generated by cans and bottles. We also need to ensure that new products are available that can be made of recyclable materials, and I commend the work of the BEACON project, based at Bangor University, to find new recyclable packaging for everyday products like egg boxes.

But, focusing on the motion, we know that 50 per cent of what is in most household residual waste could be recycled. It’s just that households are just not catching up with their obligations as citizens to do the right thing. Where they don’t do the right thing, we need to bear down on them, and I pay tribute to the work that Cardiff council is doing to ensure that people are adhering to the waste collection system that’s in place: they are being prosecuted for littering, they are being prosecuted for fly-tipping, and 1,600 fixed penalties were issued in the last 12 months. So, I think that this is a completely misfocused motion, and I’ll be very pleased to vote against it and instead support the Labour amendment.