Glyphosate Campaign

Sheffield City Council: Stop using Glyphosate. Please sign the petition

Reading List Glyphosate, Neonicotinoids and Pesticides

Pesticide Action Network

https://www.pan-uk.org/

Glyphosate

Garden Organic

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/glyphosate-debate

TUC Guidelines on using Glyphosate

https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/glyphosate

Glyphosate is in our food

http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/herbicide-is-whats-for-dinner

Glyphosate is in beer and wine

https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-beer-wine-2630077686.html

FIGO International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics wants Glyphosate ban

https://www.figo.org/statement-glyphosate-removal

Monsanto paid Google to bury unfavourable news

https://futurism.com/the-byte/monsanto-google-hide-unfavorable-news

Monsanto destroy journalists reputation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/monsanto-roundup-journalist-documents

Is Round-up safe for dogs?

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/is-roundup-safe-for-dogs/

Wirral Council spray beach

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/17822073.anger-wirral-council-cover-hoylake-beach-chemicals/

Glyphosate toxicity – impacts on the environment and non-target species

https://permaculture.com.au/glyphosate-toxicity-impacts-on-the-environment-and-non-target-species/

Neonicotinoids

America’s agriculture is 48 times more toxic than 25 years ago. Blame neonics

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/americas-dependence-on-pesticides-especially-neonics-is-a-war-on-nature?

Half a billion bees die within three months in Brazil

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/bees-dead-brazil-pesticides-wildlife-a9071841.html

Huge decline in Songbirds linked to common pesticide

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/widely-used-pesticide-makes-birds-lose-weight/

Fishery collapse ‘confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/31/fishery-collapse-confirms-silent-spring-pesticide-prophecy?

Friends of the Earth

https://foe.org/neonicotinoids-glyphosate/

Pesticides

Govt fail to answer question on harm to bees

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2019-07-22.280362.h&s=speaker%3A24910#g280362.q0

RSPB resigns from government’s pesticides forum after chemical use soars 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/04/18/rspb-resigns-governments-pesticides-forum-chemical-use-soars/

UK accused of ‘silently eroding’ EU pesticide rules in Brexit laws

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/12/uk-accused-silently-eroding-eu-pesticide-rules-brexit-laws

Biodiversity

Biodiversity collapse in UK continues

https://theecologist.org/2019/oct/04/biodiversity-collapse-uk-continues

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/02/12/insect-species-threatened-extinction-more-than-40-study-says/2836115002/

Monarch Butterflies Among 10 Species Imperiled by Pesticides

https://www.nrdc.org/media/2019/191030-1

Positive News!

How Council’s can save money and increase biodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/27/uk-roadsides-verge-wildlife-corridors-guidelines-wildflowers

Glyphosate free area in Hackney

https://news.hackney.gov.uk/council-trials-glyphosate-free-area-in-homerton/

Facebook Group Pesticide Free Towns

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1479569212349144/permalink/2106550049651054/

Pesticide Free Balerno (Near Edinburgh)

https://www.konect.scot/post/pesticide-free-balerno

Sheffield -Coverage of our campaign

Sheffield Telegraph July 5th 2021

https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/people/stop-spraying-poisonous-weedkiller-on-streets-of-sheffield-what-a-petition-signed-by-thousands-is-calling-for-this-week-3296513

Now Then Magazine

https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/city-to-reconsider-glyphosate-council-to-replace-or-significantly-reduce-use

http://nowthenmagazine.com/app/#iss_art/591

Star

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/politics/council/more-1000-people-petition-against-weed-killer-487773

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/politics/council/row-over-sheffield-councils-use-cancer-causing-herbicide-2550928

Yorkshire Live

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/thousands-sign-petition-urging-sheffield-18657643

FOI requests

How much Glyphosate does the Council use (2018)

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/use_of_herbicides_fungicides_gro?fbclid=IwAR0W4jkcymn__hO1XcBbBPgJF7FxMCu8UZTH_s0nUcbJ1PzOeP5LDyO3VCk

Glyphosate in Sheffield Parks and Playgrounds

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/use_of_glyphosate_in_parks?nocache=incoming-1549284#incoming-1549284

How much Glyphosate doe the Council use? (2019)