What is the best way to get rid of Brambles please. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Glyphosate ban as water contaminated (16/9/2003)
Glyphosate, Monsanto's "Roundup" herbicide - for which its GM crops are designed to be resistant - has been banned in Denmark because it is contaminating water supplies. ---
THIRD WORLD NETWORK BIOSAFETY INFORMATION SERVICE
16 September 2003
Dear Friends and colleagues,
RE: DANISH WATER CONTAMINATED BY ROUNDUP, BAN IMPOSED
Denmark has imposed a ban on the spraying of glyphosates as of 15 September 2003 following the release of data which found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide (RR) has been contaminating the drinking water resources of the country. The chemical has, against all expectations sieving down through the soil and polluting the ground water at a rate of five times more than the allowed level for drinking water, according to tests done by the Denmark and Greenland Geological Research Institution (DGGRI) as reported below.
"When we spray glyphosate on the fields by the rules it has been shown that it is washed down into the upper ground water with a concentration of 0.54 micrograms per litre. This is very surprising, because we had previously believed that bacteria in the soil broke down the glyphosate before it reached the ground water," says DGGRI. We hope you will find the information provided useful.
With best wishes,
Lim Li Lin and Chee Yoke Heong
Third World Network
121-S Jalan Utama
10450 Penang, Malaysia
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.twnside.org.sg
given that we have a water treatment and supply infrastructure, and don't dig wells in our back gardens for drinking water anymore, the levels of chemicals in tap water is carefully monitored and regulated..
I use weedkillers.others who just use the stuff without thinking, say that it is inactive as soon as it hits the soil, and only affects the plants on which it lands. That is not the case, as it kills other things as well, and has other effects, the information about which is available if you bother to look. But then perhaps you garden by poisons.
What evidence you have that the statement on the packaging on a common weedkiller, which says that it is inactivated when it reaches the soil, and kills only those weeds where it touches the leaves, is untrue?
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