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Letter of the week
Wasting away
YOU detailed a bad week for Defra (Town & Country, August 9), on account of its delayed food-waste-reporting mandate for large businesses, delayed until 2026. The week before, it was the sorry tale of Defra’s Five-Year Climate Adaptation Plan; Agromenes (August 2) made very worrying reading about that idea.
If we take into account your comments some weeks ago about Defra’s lack of IT systems, its dependence on processing business by hand, failing to work out climate-change issues, for which it is responsible as the relevant government department, yet providing us all with a whistle alert on our smartphones... terrific. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Alastair Conan, Surrey