Britain’s fridge disposal crisis and what to do about it | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Sam Wollaston about Norfolk’s fridge mountain Sam Wollaston ( What an eyesore!

My day at Norfolk’s frightful fridge mountain, 21 October ) highlights an urgent issue, but misses a key underlying driver: the reality of climate change and increasingly hot UK summers. Many standard UK fridge-freezers are only built to normal (N) ambient climate classes, rated to operate in temperatures up to +32C. During recent heatwaves, indoor temperatures in many homes regularly exceed this limit. Even…