Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:45 pm on 12 December 2018.
Well, I'm very pleased that Members from across all four parties have supported this proposal. I didn't look at food specifically, because I think a lot of it is to do with getting the public on side and getting them to eat real food at all. So, I haven't addressed food waste, and I haven't yet worked out a way in which we could apply EPR to food waste, although it's a very interesting area. The 86 million chickens thrown into landfill I'm still reeling from.
We clearly have very large support for the deposit-return scheme and also for extended producer responsibility, and I think we need to move on that quite quickly. In the meantime, whilst we get these deposit-return schemes up and running, I do think that there is a role for Government to ensure that all local authorities are separating their glass from the rest of their recycling, because, at the moment, all the glass is doing is contaminating the recyclables with shards of glass, because, obviously, in the compacting that is what happens.
So, thank you very much indeed for the support and I hope we can move forward on legislation.