Petitioners in plea to North East Lincolnshire Council: Stop spraying wildflowers with poisonous chemicals!

 

Cornflowers, poppies and  daisies used to be common on roadside verges and on the edges of playing fields, but now many, if not most, have fallen victim to NELC's application of poisonous chemicals 

A CALL for North East Lincolnshire Council to end the use of chemical herbicides will be made  at a meeting next week.

Some 21,968 people have signed an online petition urging the authority to cease applying Glyphosate - commonly known as RoundUp -  to wildflowers in its parks, gardens and playing fields  and on roadside verges.

Not only do the wildflowers perish  but so, too, do butterflies, bees and other pollinating insects.

NELC also targets the base of trees to the detriment of blackbirds, thrushes and finches which, if poison-free,  like to forage in these places.

The petition is due to be debated at Thursday's meeting of the full council to be held in Cleethorpes Town Hall. 

It states: "We, a group of residents, of councillors and of others request NELC to join the growing list of pesticide-free towns and phase-out the use of Glyphosate in favour of non-chemical alternatives that put nature first."