Incredible Edible Lambeth led a campaign to stop the use of pesticides on Lambeth streets in 2019.
We are experiencing a biodiversity crisis, with a catastrophic decline in insect life, in part because of over-use of pesticide. And there are questions around the safety of glyphosate to our health (read how Bayer have agreed to pay out $US15.9b in cancer claims).
Use of glyphosate was stopped completely when new contracts were brought in by Lambeth Council in October 2021. Lambeth Council said at that time that: “part of our expectations of the new service which we have put out to tender is that bidders have to prove how they will manage invasive weed growth without glyphosate”.