7. Statement by the Minister for Environment: Extended Producer Responsibility

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:59 pm on 8 May 2018.

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Photo of Mr Simon Thomas Mr Simon Thomas Plaid Cymru 5:59, 8 May 2018

It just shows that the public are ahead of us in many ways on this and they want to see some significant changes, and I know the Minister, before she made her statement today, has been to visit the weigh shop in Crickhowell, which is an excellent example—Natural Weigh—of how some businesses are also responding to this. So, this is not about Government telling people what to do; this is about the people going themselves and Government chasing after them to try and catch up with the things that we can do in Wales, and everything that the Minister set out I broadly agree with, though I have some questions, as you might expect, on how we might get there, particularly in the context of where the powers now lie.