tony kitching wrote:
Martin Brown;861698 Wrote:
Mike wrote:-
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:39:20 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:
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tony kitching wrote:-
A council worked arrived at my garden 30th July on a windy day and
sprayed
glyphosate randomly about by the look of it-
Pure glyphosate is about as poisonous weight for weight as the
caffeine
in instant coffee. It is the wetting agents in the commercial
weedkiller
formulations that are a bit nasty.--
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I have worked for a council (no selective weed killers) and in
agriculture and my experience of the active ingrediant glyphosphate
commonly used in Roundup is wide.-

Surprised they don't use something more suitable on paths. I guess
because glyphosate is so lethal to plants and otherwise relatively
benign they use it for everything. The need to spray is much reduced
when a weedkiller is used with a germination inhibitor that lasts for a season

hi Martin
I have contacted defra and they have the cctv footage
I'm sure the met office will have the wind speed direction for that
day
The council told me they use this product

http://tinyurl.com/nptaln

OK. So it is a glyphosate formulation. I would not be too worried about
it. Unless you are an adherent of the Henry Doublespeak organisation
looking to rip off the worried well in a supermarket with Organic(TM)
branded products in multiple layers of polythene bags. Glyphosate is
quickly gone and makes its presence felt within two weeks.

The man I was in contact has told me he can't help anymore.
He did admit his ignorance
He was being told what to say by someone in the department that did
this
I was told that the council had a work order in place to treat my path
but this man didn't put any weed killer on the path

You appear to have a reasonable claim against them for negligence. How
far you push it is up to you, but you should have a claim for replacing
any damaged shrubs, flowers or vegetables. It gets hairy if you insist
that you won't eat vegetables that have survived.

I would not want any of this stuff in my garden
This year I'm almost completely organic

Organic(TM) growing is pointless pandering to hypochondriacs and the
worried well. Minimum inputs is *the* way to go.

Glyphosate is more environmentally friendly than using a flame gun or
garden bonfire for instance - that will create dioxins.

Regards,
Martin Brown