Brighton & Hove Council expects to treat Hollingdean streets with toxic Glyphosate in July 2024

It would be wonderful to help keep Hollingdean a haven for wildlife and make sure we are taking care of our own health too. We can protect the insects that feed many small mammals and birds and pollinate our food supply by avoiding its use.

If you would like to prevent chemical treatment outside your home, protect your loved ones and save our wildlife, it is time to clear away and pavement plants and plants in the road gutters. Any green growth, not in flower at the time, will receive an oily drip treatment three times this year. Glyphosate is thought to contribute to a rise in neurological diseases like Parkinsons and builds up in our water supply from run off into drains and the water aquifers beneath us. Young children’s health is also particularly affected. And the massive drop in butterflies, bees and other insect populations is thought to be largely due to pesticide use.  As Chris Packham and the Springwatch team have been telling us this summer – ‘one in six species in the UK is threatened with extinction and they need our help’. But anyone can be a wildlife hero and help to turn this problem around!

Would you like support from the council to keep your street free of Glyphosate this summer, contact  the Community Clean Up team for equipment and to have the debris taken away. communitycleanup@brighton-hove.gov.uk

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