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New Pesticides in Garden Plants: FOE’s Findings Beyond Neonics
For over a decade, Friends of the Earth’s Bee Cause Campaign successfully advocated for neonic-free plants in garden centers. By 2024, neonics were largely gone. However, new tests on “pollinator friendly” plants revealed a concerning truth: while neonics were absent, a range of other pesticides, including multiple fungicides and insecticides, were present. This suggests garden centers may be greenwashing, having simply replaced neonics with other potentially harmful chemicals. You can help fight this by demanding pesticide information, signing the Gardeners’ Right to Know petition, and documenting potential greenwashing at garden centers.
Save money and the planet by taking plastic-free lunches
Friends of the Earth’s 11-year old Plastics Campaigner, Maya, is calling on students, parents, and teachers to join her in getting rid of single use plastics in school lunches. Maya has calculated that could avoid pollution by 4,656 pieces of single-use plastic over the school year. At the same time, it could save their families money on their grocery bills – as much as $716 over the school year. Friends of the Earth’s Plastic-Free Lunch Campaign will kick-off in October 2023, and we’re inviting schools, classrooms, and Eco-Clubs across Canada to join and participate in the campaign by taking action with their school community during October 2023 and/or February 2024.
Join Maya’s Plastic Pollution Campaign to ban plastic PLU stickers in Canada
Ten year-old Maya and Friends of the Earth launched Maya’s Plastic Pollution Campaign. Its goal was to raise awareness of plastic price look-up stickers (PLUs) on fruits and vegetables and the ways in which they can harm our environment, and to call on the federal government to include these stickers under an expansion of the country’s single-use plastics ban. #ExpandTheBan.
Let It Bee
Gardens provide critical habitats for wild, native bees and to help protect them, we must change gardening practices.