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Anti-peat action is unfounded

IAGREE with all of Ruth’s remarks about peat-free compost (AG, 16 July) and have similar experiences.

I have found it is quite literally “over-priced rubbish”, containing a lot of stuff that has hardly started to break down. Consequently, it will take oxygen from the surroundings and not help plant growth.

This is another example of the government approving things without gathering scientific data, or perhaps they think that a few activists will give scientific data, which emissions, in fact, it is probably the opposite. I feel that we have to challenge all of this type of legislation and try to curb the activists.