Pesticide Free Action Network - Walsall Borough

03/09/2025

https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?si=wqmDvCqQ5dHZtx3S

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25/08/2025

Our council doesn't publicly acknowledge which herbicides they use. Our requests for information have gone unanswered. We are possibly asking the wrong people in the wrong manner so will reaserch and send out new requests this week.

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16/08/2025

Its the problem of our time.

06/08/2025

We can make a change!!!

Average glyphosate concentrations in local streams and reservoirs halved in the year after the domestic ban on the substance, a Guernsey Water quality report has revealed.

04/08/2025

A recent webinar held by the Pesticide Action Network UK is available for replay. Take a look.

New, groundbreaking research linking Glyphosate to cancer is forcing governments to review their support for the world’s most popular w**dkiller. This webin...

04/08/2025

More toxic than you think!!!

Twenty per cent of suicides are a result of pesticide poisoning, but bans on highly hazardous pesticides can reduce these risks.

02/08/2025

Without our native bees we are nothing 🐝

01/08/2025

01/08/2025 - Email sent to

Councillor Edward Lee / Councillor Rose Martin / Councillor Gary Perry.

I am writing to you as a local resident who is very concerned that the council may be using pesticides in public spaces such as parks, playgrounds, cemeteries, pavements, and housing estates.

There are plenty of non-chemical alternatives available and almost half of UK councils are now taking some kind of action to reduce or end their pesticide use. Countries such as France and Denmark have banned pesticides from villages, towns and cities nationwide. They are proving every day that it is possible for public spaces to look well-cared for without the use of toxic chemicals.

The vast majority of pesticides used by the council are herbicides (w**dkillers) applied almost entirely for cosmetic reasons. Regular exposure to even small amounts of pesticides has the potential to harm human health, with children and pregnant people particularly at risk. These chemicals also cause environmental damage, contaminating water and removing much-needed habitat relied upon by wildlife such as bees and birds.

Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) has a wealth of free resources to help local authorities go pesticide-free, including a “three-year phase out plan” which has already been proven to be effective by the many councils that have adopted it. PAN UK have also conducted the largest survey to date on pesticide use by local authorities. See the results for 2024 here.

I would be hugely grateful if you could please respond to my email to let me know if the council is currently using pesticides and whether there is a reduction plan in place.

Many thanks for your time. I do hope that, together, we can achieve a pesticide-free local environment in which both humans and wildlife thrive!

Waiting patiently on their responses.

01/08/2025

Hi 👋 Im Neville i am a postman. But i am also concerned about the use of herbicides and pesticides both within our communities and in modern day agriculture.

I set up this page to allow people to be informed of the risks associated with the use of these chemicals and to let anyone that is also concerned become apart of the solution.

I have email MP's and local authority figures including councillors and local authority leaders in the past to little response.

Due to lack of time i have failed in following these up and holding people to account.

If anyone would like to get involved in an effort to keep our children safe and our communities chemical free please get in touch.

I intend to use this page as a public record of communication sent, meetings that have been held and the responses from out local council and representatives.

Its time to make a change.

30/07/2025

Repost:

The largest ever UK-wide survey on pesticide use by local authorities has revealed that councils used more than 354 tonnes of pesticides in our towns and cities in 2024.

Roughly equivalent to 23 double-decker buses, the majority of these toxic chemicals are used to remove unwanted plants, usually for cosmetic reasons.
Data shows that the w**dkiller glyphosate is by far the most widely used pesticide in urban areas.
Glyphosate has been linked repeatedly to cancers and other diseases.

Find out if your council is making progress on tackling their use of pesticides at www.pan-uk.org/ pesticide-free (link in bio)

18/07/2025

A couple of recent post that caught our attention reposted here for you all.

We’ve read ’s statement on their glyphosate usage but we want to have a conversation about how it can be reduced further and how we can keep our communities safe.