Re: [compost_tea] Re: Clopyralid

From: Margaret Lauterbach <melauter_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:33:15 -0700

It's toxic to legumes and solanaceae. Most home gardeners grow tomatoes,
and they can't use contaminated compost. Problem now is that animals
grazed on Clopyralid-sprayed pastures excrete the herbicide unchanged. So
you have manure that's herbicidal too. Margaret L


><http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/soilmgmt/Clopyralid.htm>http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/soilmgmt/Clopyralid.htm
>
>Margaret:
>
>I thought the reason the muni compost projects were halted in WA was
>because Clopyralid was found to be cancer causing at 1ppb? If this is
>incorrect, why were the operations halted? Why does our local land fill
>now have to test for incidence and destroy, through fire and burial the
>infected greenwaste? If it's not toxic to humans what's all the hubbub?
>
>Ted Peterson
>Earth-Wise/Spirit of the Earth
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