Diolch. Thank you for that comprehensive contribution and questions. You mentioned how litter and dog fouling are often seen as those trivial or low-level political issues, but if you go around a local community and you do a survey, they are the things that are likely to be most high on it, which is why, for me, it's very important that we tackle litter as part of recycling and how we deal with things on the go. Now, we're so used to that culture of collecting things at the kerbside, but what happens with somebody when they've got a bottle, they've gone out for the day, and they're walking down the street? We need to make sure there are places more available for people to be able to recycle when they're out and about.

You make a number of comments—all, on the whole, very positive, which I welcome, course. In terms of you talking about the local authorities, 20 out of 22 local authorities met or exceeded their statutory recycling target of 58 per cent in 2016-17. Overall, local authorities are taking action. They've had support from this collaborative change programme, and we've seen returns of improvement in their recycling rates. Where local authorities have failed to meet their targets, Welsh Ministers are considering options available in regard to applying penalties for local authorities that did not meet the statutory target, and that's something we could update on in due course.

An integrated plastics strategy—absolutely. I think we have to consider everything in the whole and in a way that works for us in Wales. I think it's really important—I talked about the communities that have become plastic free already and how we are seeing there's a huge wave of public opinion and movements. I think it's really important that, as a Government, we embrace that as well, and, as individual Assembly Members, we practise what we preach on that too. So, I think it's really important that we bring all that together and make sure that any solution we come up with in the next few months for Wales meets our needs and actually does tackle those areas that are still outstanding that we still know are problems in terms of hard-to-reach textiles, plastics—that we bring that all together. I think you were talking about the packaging in supermarkets things. It's pleasing to see a number of well-known supermarket brands now starting to announce they're taking notice of this rising public opinion that we now need to—. They will look at how they package, and particularly their own-brand products. I think that's really important and why, as a Government, we work with stakeholders, including the retail consortium, to try and bring businesses along with us to take the action that we need. 

And also looking at our extended producer responsibility study and DRS, I'm sure you're absolutely right that there's going to be a question from Simon Thomas in great detail very shortly. It is something—. You reference where we have high levels of recycling. I think this goes back to what I've just said. It's about making sure that we have a solution that has no unintended consequences but actually complements what we're already doing in Wales and builds on that success.