FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Health and Environmental Organizations Call for a Province-wide Ban on Lawn and Garden Pesticides

We support the BC Government’s interest in safeguarding the environment from cosmetic chemical pesticides and call for new legislation

We support the BC Government’s interest in safeguarding the environment from cosmetic chemical pesticides and call for new legislation that:
• Prohibits the use, sale, and retail display of chemical
pesticides for lawns, gardens, and non-agricultural landscaping;
• Allows exemptions only to protect public health;
• Provides for public education about the ban and alternatives to chemical pesticides;
• Includes effective mechanisms for enforcement;
• Is passed in 2010 and fully implemented within the first two years of the government’s current mandate.

In a world of multiple chemical exposures, we must
eliminate needless risks from lawn and garden pesticides.

Read our backgrounder.

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