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Safe weed control

01 Sep 19/in Health and Food, Magazine Articles

in our streets and parks  

Hot water weed control in operation on Auckland’s North Shore Photo: Biothermal Technologies Ltd

– giving up glyphosate!

Hana Blackmore of the group Weed Management Advisory looks at council weed management practices and how we can make our neighbourhoods safer and healthier. 

Tried, trusted… yet little known 

Almost unnoticed, a delicate little remit was passed at the AGM of Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) last month, encouraging councils to ‘consider using environmentally friendly weed control methods’.   

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