Waste, recycling and pollution

Jemma Bere

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…there has been quite a lot of changes. There's a lot of voluntary initiatives. So, Keep Wales Tidy run litter-free zones for businesses; we've got a lot of fast food industries, a lot of the big chains, signed up to them, so they take responsibility not only for their own area but also an area that…

Tagged for: “litter”, “extended producer responsibility”, “Recycling”Official Record

Keith James

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

—for increasing recycling. Sorry, go on.

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Keith James

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…the right thing as well. So, with businesses, the big change recently has obviously been the workplace recycling regulations, so that's very much an initiative that WRAP Cymru has worked on in partnership with Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government as well. So, we've been delivering a series…

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Keith James

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

Yes, I would say more effort needs to go in. So, just thinking about the targets in 'Beyond Recycling' for 2025 and then to 2030, the more ambitious the targets, the harder they are to achieve, so more effort and more resource will need to go in to get those incremental increases.

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Keith James

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…to do anyway. So, one example would be the 'Be Mighty. Recycle.' campaign. So, that's Wales's largest recycling campaign. We know that 90 per cent of people recycle most of their dry items every day, but only about 78 per cent of people recycle food regularly; they've got various concerns about…

Tagged for: “recycling”, “food waste”Official Record

Jemma Bere

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…in the first instance, we have seen it being used politically, which was very disappointing, because DRS was the subject of that, as you'll know, in Scotland. We also understand that it's limiting some of the elements around the single-use plastics ban, so we're seeking exemption—we had to split…

Tagged for: “DRS”, “single-use plastics”, “deposit-return”Official Record

Rhianon PassmoreLabour

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…Internal Market Act 2020 impacting Wales's environmental ambitions, particularly waste reduction and recycling rates, through the single-use plastic ban and deposit-return scheme scope? And can the benefits—I've touched upon this earlier—of aligning policy across UK nations justify any lesser…

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Gwen Frost

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…It's causing confusion for businesses, yes, but we can take the opportunity to trial a digital DRS that works in line with our kerbside recycling systems and our separated collection that we already operate within Wales. And by doing that, we can also look at increasing the awareness with residents…

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Clarissa Morawski

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…I mentioned a few numbers before. I mentioned that it's not just a number in terms of collection for recycling, it's also what that material is recycled into. The delay also could have an impact on reuse. We very much see that the future of deposit return is a slow transition to more reusable…

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Rhianon PassmoreLabour

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…it, than just a few pieces of fruit. But I'm going to move on. What impact will the delay in the DRS likely have on recycling rates—we've touched upon this earlier—and the targets set out in 'Beyond Recycling'? Who would like to go first? Clarissa.

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Keith James

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…on fresh, uncooked fruit and vegetables, because our research suggests that that will not only reduce food waste and reduce packaging waste, but it'll also save people money, it'll help them buy the right amount. We're very specific that that's not for all fruit and veg; it's just for the uncut.

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Rhianon PassmoreLabour

13 June 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts

…we walk through the door. I don't know if there's any simple comment on that, before I go back onto the deposit-return scheme.

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