Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK

Local authority Number and
nature of
complaints about
pesticides
received in 2004.
Tandridge District
Council
Vale Borough
Council
Wychavon District
Council
Action taken. Do you as a Local
Authority have a
pesticides policy?
What policies and What quantities
experiences do of pesticides did
you have of 1) you use in 2004?
the use of nonchemical
weed
control 2)
tolerance of some
weeds?
0 - No We encourage and
indeed specify the
manual removal of
weeds wherever
possible. We have a
fair bit of
experience
regarding the
eradication of
Japanese Knotweed
– we’ve stopped
using glyphosate
and now use
Picloram (Tordon
22K) with much
greater success.
16.34 litres
glyphosate; 3.75
litres picloram; 4.5
litres dichlorophen;
1.775 litres
thiophanatemethyl;
0.5 litres
triforine; 2.06 litres
2,4-D+mecoprop-P;
0.66 litres
fenarimol; 1.5 litres
carbendazim.
0 - No N/A N/A N/A
What measures
do you take to
ensure your 1)
contract
specifiers and 2)
contractors are
appropriately
trained?
We insist that
anyone who applies
a pesticide has to
hold the correct
qualitifications. Our
staff that spray are
trained at TDC
expense.
0 - N/A N/A N/A Required as part of
the contract for full
details to be
provided.
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