Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment): This week, the Government has delivered on its promise to phase out problem plastics and some single-use plastics by 2025. We'll be phasing out hard-to-recycle food and drink packaging made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene and some degradable plastic products. We'll be phasing out single-use plastic items such as drink stirrers; cotton buds; single-use produce bags; single-use plastic cutlery, plates, and bowls; as well as non-compostable plastic labels. We've made good progress over the last three years and there's strong public and business support for the 2019 plastic-bag ban, which has meant that more than 1 billion fewer plastic bags have ended up in our landfills or ocean, and we know that New Zealanders are ready to do more.