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Change Murcia has filed a motion in Parliament tomorrow that proposes developing a plan to gradually replace pesticide use in parks and municipal gardens allowed in organic farming products and other harmless to health and the environment ambient.
The municipalist training has also called for the non-use of herbicides containing the active ingredient glyphosate, including the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as probably carcinogenic to humans substance is ensured.
The council will defend the motion, Sergio Ramos, it recalled that there is legislation at national and Community level which provides a strategy for the sustainable use of pesticides by reducing the risks and proposes the use of non-chemical methods.
In the case of Murcia, the technical specifications for the procurement of maintenance service contains generic gardens to reduce the use of pesticides and to prevent disease areas with water sources and indications as well as its night application, although this is breaches in the application of herbicides.
Murcia's change initiative requests also that the City inform local groups of the pesticide treatments carried out on a quarterly basis and the treated areas, the products used, the dates and times.
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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