A protest march to highlight the damage that Glyphosate weed killer causes to wild bee colonies on the Isle of Wight will be held in Newport on Saturday (23rd July).
In February, Island Roads announced they would be returning to the use of Glyphosate weed killer on roads and pavements. The company claimed it was too difficult to remove the weeds with hand tools, and that they’d received a rise in complaints about weeds on roads and pavements.
A petition, which has received more than 5,000 signatures, has been launched to call on Island Roads to reverse their decision to protect the Island’wildlife, including pollinators and the wall lizard commonly found in Ventnor.
The march will start from St Thomas’s Square in Newport at 11:00 and ends outside County Hall. Those taking part are encouraged to wear black and yellow and bring dead flowers and a kazoo (if possible).
These weed killers are not good for humans either!!
Why can’t the public pull them (if they’re able of course) as they walk along the pavements? Although perennials can be difficult to remove in between paving stones I do admit. Vinegar and salt do the job too, or flame tools, use one of those in my garden myself as I’m disabled.
I have personally planted over 50 saplings on some of my land, the rest is turned over to wildflower meadow habitat, all be it small, it was done to encourage wildlife and especially bee’s.
Can i just say a big F₩¥£ YOU to island roads!
Those chemicals are also carcinogenic to your workers and others, so you, the pen pushing suit that signs this off are responsible, I hope you loose your cushy pension to a law suit!
When they drive along a pavement on those buggy things they’re wearing respirators, but they just drive round kids in pushchairs. That is putting them in danger, if they’re wearing something surely it proves its dangerous.
I didn’t think it was possible to lower my opinion of Island Roads. How wrong I was.
From a purely aesthetic point of view, which looks nicer, greenery lining our pavements or brown shrivelled dead stuff?
please note start time has changed to 11am same place have contacted island echo to update this post.
Way to go, Isle of Wight. I am posting from an island in New Zealand where we have been free of pesticides on roads and parks for 30 years. (look us up – Waiheke Island, Auckland) Of course weeds can be managed without pesticide – we have contractors in Auckland who have used hot water and hot foam for over 20 years, for the same price as glyphosate. So do not accept this cannot be done. You need contractors who are WILLING to do a chemical free job.
PS We remember the Isle of Wight with much fondness as my husband grew up there and we holidayed every year with his parents as our children experienced the magic of the island.
It can be done yes, but this island is so corrupt now, they will still kill anything natural. Not so much magic island now as tragic.