Waste, recycling and pollution

Cefin CampbellPlaid

12 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Anti-bullying Week: The mental health and well-being of learners

…living in poverty. So, will you as a Government consider ensuring that all schools have school uniform recycling schemes? And what other support can you provide for those who find it difficult to buy the correct school uniform including a badge? And will you, as Cabinet Secretary, also consider…

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Jane HuttLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

Thank you for raising that question. It hasn't been raised for a number of weeks, so I would have understood that the changes for the recycling arrangements of Denbighshire County Council were bedding in and being now managed more effectively. But, unfortunately, from what you say, there are still…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

12 November 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

Could we please have a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs on the increase in fly-tipping rates in Denbighshire currently, in response to the appalling roll-out of the Trolibocs system? I had a walk around Rhyl in my constituency on Friday and was appalled at…

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Julie MorganLabour

6 November 2024, Plenary

90-second Statements

…for environmental activists in Wales. Early campaigns focused on increasing awareness of acid rain and recycling. In the 1990s, alongside their growing network of local groups, FOE Cymru was gathering evidence of the Sea Empress oil spill and campaigned to protect rich marine habitats like Cardigan…

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Julie JamesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

…to make sure that we can maintain our current practices, and you'll know we've just had the workplace recycling regulations, for example, which play into this. I know my colleague the Deputy First Minister has also been having conversations on the deposit-return scheme, for example, making sure that…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

…in the Chamber agree with the principle that the company that pollutes should pay for the pollution—the polluter pays principle, as we say in English. But I'd be eager to know if law officers have expressed any concerns about any precedent that may be set by the way in which Westminster legislates…

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Julie JamesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

Diolch, Delyth. The most effective way of implementing extended producer responsibility for packaging is on a UK-wide basis due to the flows of packaging and packaging waste across borders. The scheme will enable consistency across the UK while enabling Wales to build on its performance as second in…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

4 November 2024, Petitions Committee

New Petitions

…with the previous Cabinet Secretary, then Minister, I think she was going to include it in banning single-use plastics, and, one week, there was talk of banning it, and then there was a bit of a change, so I just wonder why there was that change in it, around banning artificial grass. Maybe it was…

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Peter FoxConservative

4 November 2024, Petitions Committee

New Petitions

…a focused and evidence-based approach to tackling the issue. And he points out the Welsh Government’s circular economy strategy for managing the life cycle of plastic products like artificial grass, and work through 'Planning Policy Wales' to encourage sustainability of new developments. So…

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Mike HedgesLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Inter-institutional relations agreement

…to make these regulations, which will apply in relation to Wales. The regulations introduce an extended producer responsibility scheme for packaging and packaging waste, which will require producers of packaging to pay the cost of managing packaging waste and the provision of public information…

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Mike HedgesLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

…have to go into the grid. Port Talbot is an example. I'm not very happy with the bringing in of steel recycling, rather than steel manufacturing. There's going to be huge energy use—rather than having it coming from the grid, but having local provision.

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Mike HedgesLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget

…do I know that? This is what happened when income tax was partially devolved and when stamp duty and landfill taxes were devolved. I actually support the devolution of the Crown Estate, because there are many good reasons why it would benefit Wales, but I do not believe that it would bring any…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

…as sustainable development through house building, placemaking, affordable housing, climate change, air quality, renewable energy, net zero and sustainable transport. The principles, though, that we have in our approach in 'Planning Policy Wales' do move us away from simply counting houses to…

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