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Pesticides and your garden centre
The Ontario government recently announced that the province's proposed pesticide ban will go into effect April 22, 2009, on Earth Day. We
want to know: what are you doing to prepare for these changes?
In 2008, both the Alberta and Ontario governments announced separate proposed plans to limit the use of cosmetic pesticides.
While the Alberta weed and feed ban won’t take affect until 2010, the
Ontario government has announced that provincial ban will go into effect on April 22, Earth Day.
The
ban prohibits the sale and use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes on
lawns, gardens, parks and school yards, and includes many herbicides,
fungicides and insecticides. Over 250 products will be banned for sale
and more than 80 pesticide ingredients will be banned for cosmetic
uses. For more information on which chemicals are banned, download the government's retailer fact sheet and visit the pesticide section of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's website.
In the midst of these changes, I wanted to ask you: how are you preparing for the Ontario ban
at your garden centre? What alternatives will you be offering your
customers and how do you plan to educate customers about these alternatives? What are you doing with banned product that you still have in your inventory? Are
you concerned that your customers will seek out their pesticide
products across the border?
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