Why laugh ?
Some professionals who use it have no alternative but to use another more polluting product that is more expensive and less durable.
I think of green spaces for which it is already banned since January 2017
Covering green areas with wood chips, artificial soils or bare weeds is enough to replace chemicals.
... a cost that small municipalities can not endorse.
I just learned that the green deposit of the town will be removed because of the cost of pickup truck become too expensive (small local revolution that does not concern me, since I import
), it is not to ruin communal weeding. I know many rural people for whom gravel paths in the cemetery must always be clean and without grass.
Small anecdote: In the paternal cemetery, they had carried out a thermal weeding ... Lack of pot, it rained immediately after and it grew again. Soon after, the grass disappeared more drastically ... "god" knows how
In agriculture, on the other hand, it's a whole different matter. More than 9.000 tons of glyphosate are consumed each year in France, including 8.000 for agriculture. According to the agri-environment consulting firm Envilys, glyphosate is used in France on 38% of surfaces cultivated in wheat and rapeseed, 26% of those grown in barley and 25% of those grown in sunflower. According to the Concorde Foundation, which brings together specialized experts on the issue, a ban on glyphosate would represent an additional cost of nearly one billion euros for farmers. The FNSEA, she speaks of a figure twice as high.
http://www.europe1.fr/societe/la-france ... te-3445598Here too, in this period of crisis, and especially the conservation agriculture that is still seeking, will suffer.
How is it going in Belgium, since it's forbidden?