Thank you, acting Presiding Officer.

I want to focus on the reducing aspect of the three Rs. Every one of them, of course, is useful, but I think we need to prevent things being recycled in the first place. And to that end, there are some fantastic examples out there. One of them is a charitable organisation in Pembrokeshire called FRAME, just down the road from where I live, actually, and they've been championing this approach for many, many years by refurbishing furniture and household goods and then upcycling them. And those goods would most definitely have previously ended up in landfill. And they set this agenda long before it was fashionable so to do, and long before this conversation had started. The consequence of that is that they have provided valuable employment to over 200 people in the local area every year, and they have a fantastic record of reusing or recycling 60 per cent, or in excess of 60 per cent, of the items that they collect. But added to that also, they are offering help to families who need it to purchase or repurchase those goods with a reduced price tag, but also individuals who want that purchasing option. And they will actually pick those goods up and then redeliver them to their new homes.

I think one of the things that's been missed here today is that, if we put furniture, or any type of wood that's been treated, back into landfill it will have had some toxic additives, and they are a major problem. I don't know if anybody watched the piece that was done about the waste that was found along the River Thames. Those pieces of furniture, of clothing, were absolutely intact, but the pollutants, you can almost be certain, were in the water. So, there will be paint, there will be varnish, there will be plastic coating from all of those items, so I think we need to add those messages in when we talk about why it is we need to prevent these things going in to be recycled in the first place. But also, you can teach people the skill of how to make something out of anything else, and FRAME does that as well.

There's another fabulous example of a business trying to reduce waste, and it's called Natural Weigh Ltd, and it's the first zero-waste shop in Wales. It's located, again, in my constituency, in Crickhowell. Natural Weigh encourages customers to bring in reusable containers when buying goods such as cleaning products or dried food, and it reduces greatly the need for single-use plastic. They've recently won the 'one to watch' award at the Social Business Wales awards. I hope, Minister, that you will join me in wishing them success in the Social Enterprise UK awards, which are being held next month. So, another good-news story.

But what really, I think, concerns all of us here is our stroll down the large retailers and the packaging that you know you cannot avoid, and that you can't recycle. So, I suppose my question to you is: how are you as a Government progressing in trying to send a message to those large companies that they really have to get on board with this circular economy approach, like the examples of the small businesses that we've heard here today? What is it, if anything, that we can do in terms of legislation to ensure that they stop their really bad behaviour?