9. Short Debate: Plastic-free Caerphilly, Plastic-free Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:00 pm on 6 February 2019.

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Photo of Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Labour 6:00, 6 February 2019

Thank you, Hefin, for bringing what is a really, really important debate here. I think that all of this plastic we've talked about finds itself in one place eventually, and that is the sea. So, we have a Welsh marine fisheries Bill going through at the moment, and I think we need to seize the opportunity to actually insist that any marine fishing tackle is not made out of plastic from this moment forward. This is the moment. There is a public will behind this, and we really, really have to do something to start addressing what is an absolute catastrophe at the moment, and it is only going to get worse.