Hon DAVID PARKER: The Government has delivered on a number of the Labour Party's election promises at the time of the last election by launching the $50 million Plastics Innovation Fund, which will help support projects to improve how we make, use, recycle, and dispose of plastics. This will fund innovative New Zealanders to help identify the solutions that we need, and then help them to scale up so that we can get them into commercial use. The fund will find ways to use less plastic to make what we do recyclable for the benefit of the environment, but it'll also have job benefits and support the economy. Projects designing out waste in products and packaging or to adopt and scale up existing technologies through to switching materials and developing recycling solutions not currently available can all be considered. We expect that the fund, which opens later this year, will attract a range of applicants from research institutes, businesses, and community groups. The Government's committed to making good progress to a lower-waste, low-emissions economy.