How To Remain Environment Friendly While Using Pesticides

How To Remain Environment Friendly While Using Pesticides. 

 

Pesticides are used to repel or kill pests.We usually  are concerned about pests that disturb our homes including wasps, hornets, ants, termites, rats, mice, fleas, bedbugs and other insects. Although we get rid of pests using these pesticides but at the same time we are also accountable to our environment where we live. When we use these pesticides, we pose serious threats to our environment. So it becomes our moral and social responsibility to keep our environment safe from the harmful effects of pesticides.

A recent survey has revealed that around 20,000 cases of pesticide poisoning are taking place every year and the more alarming fact is that most of the cases occur with children under six years of age. Whether your target are ants, mice, cockroaches, bed bugs, flies, spiders and other indoor or outdoor structural pests, you should also take control measures to minimize negative effects of pesticides to environment.

In Ontario, Ministry of Environment regulates use of pesticides according to which only registered under PCP act can be used and its label is required to be followed because it has all necessary info regarding chemical composition, active ingredient, recommended dosage, health and safety guidelines, toxicity etc.

Pesticide selection

Choosing an appropriate pesticide is one of the most important decisions while planning for your pest control. Most of the pesticides are manufactured to target a specific pest which makes it difficult to choose a single solution for multiple pests. More often than not, your aim is to achieve multiple targets like, cockroach control, ant pest control, rodent control, mice control, bedbugs extermination and extermination for fleas but find a single pesticide for all these purposes is really a hard nut to crack. One may not afford an extermination solution for every individual pest. Moreover, going for multiple solutions at the same time can overload your home with toxic substances.

Using the correct amount

Being greedy is a part of human nature and we by nature believe that excess of everything is always good. This practice is really very bad with pesticides. Rather it can be fetal as pesticides are highly toxic substances and their diminutive presence in edibles can bring serious menaces. Overdosing during pest control not only poses threats to personal health but also to the environment. Pesticide dosage excess than prescribed on labels causes harms including runoffs into surface and ground water that leads to other potential harms caused by use of this water; damage to useful plants and beneficial organisms. Moreover, pesticides are comparatively expensive and their inadequate use also causes loss of your hard earned money.

Storage and disposal

Storing pesticides is a great issue; buy the quantity that you need only so that you may not have to store the pest control chemical at your house. More often than not, we buy pesticide more than we actually need and later we overlook their safe storage.

Disposing the excess pesticide through toilets, drains, sewers or leaving them in open ground is indeed a bad practice. This practice will ultimately bring those pesticides into contact with environment. The best way to dispose-off the useless pesticides is to pack them in a plastic bag and burry deep into the ground.