Meanwhile a recent Defra study found that we sling almost 2m tonnes of textiles into UK landfill each year, and this is primarily garment waste.

同时，环境、食品和农村事务部最近的一份研究发现，我们每年向英国的垃圾填筑地扔大约200万公吨的纺织原料，而这些是服装浪费的主要部分。

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He points to a similar group in Ireland that has a higher budget per capita, and will be active in all local authorities, rather than in just the 15 a year in the UK that the Defra group is targeting.

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In broader terms, Defra says the UK food and drink industry accounted for 11% of the country's energy consumption, excluding transport, in 2002.

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There was then a full year of committee hearings at the Council of Ministers, with officials from the different member states, including Defra in the UK, battling it out to reach a "common position".

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