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Get out of town! Banning pesticides in your community

Get out of town! Banning pesticides in your community

Pesticides in residential communities are primarily used to beautify gardens. (They’re the botox and false eyelashes of the gardening world.) These chemicals are also completely unnecessary.

The easiest way to prevent pesticides from leaching into the environment is to simply ban them. Many communities are doing just that. More than 150 Canadian municipalities, as well as the province of Quebec, have passed laws banning the use of pesticides for cosmetic, non-essential purposes.

Your city or town can join the list. Find out if your community has taken steps to ban cosmetic pesticides:
http://www.flora.org/healthyottawa/ 
Or click below to see who is already doing it:
http://www.flora.org/healthyottawa/BylawList.pdf

Learn more:

• The Sierra Club have developed toolkit to help communities ban pesticides: http://www.sierraclub.ca/atlantic/programs/healthycommunities/pesticides/index.htm

• The David Suzuki Foundation has compared Canada’s pesticide regulations to those of other nations. The news isn’t good for our home and native land: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/health/food/

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