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Is Your Chemical Lawn Program Harming …
- Your Children?
- Your Pets?
- The Environment? …
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Alternative to Chemical Lawn
Programs
More and more people are talking about their concern over the misuse of pesticides and chemicals used to treat their lawns. Children and pets are not free to enjoy the grass. Tainted run-off water finds its way into the water system.
Organic lawn care companies and “all-natural” services have been sprouting up across the country due to the increasing marketplace for “environmentally friendly” alternatives. While this is a great testament to the power of the movement, it also opens the door to fraudulent and misleading claims. Sustainability claims that ignore standards of soil health and continued hazardous chemical use are dangerous distractions from the urgent global environmental and health need to transition to truly sustainable organic approaches to pesticide management.
It is ultimately the responsibility of the consumer to determine the validity of the company’s claims.
- 1. Do not simply take the company’s marketing claims at face value; find out what products (and their active ingredients) will be used — they will speak for themselves.
- 2. Investigate the toxicity and environmental effects of each ingredient. Many products contain a small percentage of the organic or less-toxic alternative mixed with a large percentage of synthetic, petroleum-based fertilizer. Be cautious of the word “natural” and other claims that can’t be substantiated.
Finally, there is an alternative to using chemicals. BIO-LOGIC Organic Lawn Care offers only…
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