Amenity Pesticide Use
Dear Scottish Borders Council,
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.
1. Please provide the following information on amenity pesticide usage:
a. A list of the pesticides you use (brand name, and active ingredient), this should include insecticides, fungicides, molluscicides and herbicides.
b. The COSHH assessment form for each of the pesticides you use.
c. Where these chemicals are used, i.e parks, road verges, pavements, tree bases etc.
d. Annual quantities of each pesticide used over the past 5 years. Please include the total amount of each used both by the council internally and externally through contractors.
e. Please also confirm the concentrations of each pesticide used at application.
2. What strategies does the council have in place to reduce the use of these pesticides? Please provide detail on these efforts including dates and costings where possible.
3. How much has the council spent on purchasing and spraying amenity pesticides over the past 5 years? Please include staff costs of people employed to undertake this (either contractors or council staff), personal protective equipment, safety training, spray equipment, hazard signs, etc.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested above for any reason, I would be grateful for any further advice or assistance as to how I can refine my request. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs as necessary.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.
Yours faithfully,
Kate Basley
Dear Kate Basley
I acknowledge receipt of your request for information relating to the
above and shall respond within the relevant 20 working day period.
Yours sincerely
Information Management Team
Scottish Borders Council
0300 100 1800
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Dear Kate Basley
The above request is exempt under S39(2) Environmental Information of
FOISA therefore we respond under the Environmental Information (Scotland)
Regulations 2004.
The following response was prepared and provided on behalf of Assets &
Infrastructure:
1a. A list of the pesticides you use (brand name, and active ingredient),
this should include insecticides, fungicides, molluscicides and
herbicides.
The Council’s Parks and Environment section only uses herbicides :-
Gallup Biograde 360
Paradise
Contractors current product used is Monsanto Amenity XL
b. The COSHH assessment form for each of the pesticides you use.
Three COSHH Assessments are attached.
c. Where these chemicals are used, i.e parks, road verges, pavements, tree
bases etc.
Gallup Biograde 360 - Parks, cemeteries, school grounds, footpaths, tree
bases, shrub beds.
Paradise – Parks, cemeteries, school grounds, gravel paths
Monsanto Amenity XL – footpaths, kerb edges
d. Annual quantities of each pesticide used over the past 5 years. Please
include the total amount of each used both by the council internally and
externally through contractors.
2015
Internally
No data available
Contractor
Dakar Pro – 115.75kg
Asteroid Pro - 156.8 litres
2016
Internally
Nomix Dual – 580 litres
Gallup Biograde 360 – 376 litres
Contractor
Dakar Pro – 116.5kg
Asteroid Pro - 192.8 litres
2017
Internally
Nomix Dual – 380 litres
Gallup Biograde 360 - 413 litres
Contractor
Monsanto Amenity XL – 459..2 litres
2018
Internally
Chikara – 2.95 kg
Gallup Biograde 360 – 425 litres
Contractor
Asteroid Pro – 496.34 litres
2019
Internally
Chikara – 4.7 kg
Gallup Biograde 360 – 695 litres
Contractor
Asteroid Pro – 177.5 litre
2020
Internally
Not finished using herbicide – data not yet available
Contractor
Monsanto Amenity XL – 192.85 litres
e. Please also confirm the concentrations of each pesticide used at
application.
Internally
Nomix Dual – ready to use
Chikara – 0.75g per litre of water
Gallup Biograde 360 – 20ml per litre of water
Paradise – 0.75g per litre of water
Contractor
Dakar Pro – 15g per litre of water
Asteroid Pro – 25ml per litre of water
Monsanto Amenity XL – 25ml per litre of water
2. What strategies does the council have in place to reduce the use of
these pesticides? Please provide detail on these efforts including dates
and costings where possible.
Scottish Borders Council does not currently have any strategies in place
to reduce the use of pesticides.
3. How much has the council spent on purchasing and spraying amenity
pesticides over the past 5 years? Please include staff costs of people
employed to undertake this (either contractors or council staff), personal
protective equipment, safety training, spray equipment, hazard signs, etc.
Due to the multi-functional nature of our section, the costs of manpower,
PPE, spray equipment etc specifically used for spraying amenity pesticides
is not captured and is therefore not available.
2015
Street and rural road weed control contract - £31634.81
2016
Street and rural road weed control contract - £31634.81
2017
Street and rural road weed control contract - £31634.81
2018
Scottish Borders Council PA1/PA6 training - £250
Street and rural road weed control contract - £31634.81
2019
Street weed control contract - £11,626.07
2020
Scottish Borders Council PA1/PA6 training - £1,260
Street and rural road weed control contract - £16,134.69
Some of the attached information has been redacted as it is third party
personal information and is exempt from disclosure under Regulation 11(2)
of EI(S)R 2004.
I should advise that you have a right to request a review within 40
working days from the date we respond to your request. You should either
e-mail [1][email address] or write to the Information Manager,
Scottish Borders Council, Council HQ, Newtown St. Boswells TD6 0SA.
If after the Council’s FOI Advice Group have considered your review and
you are still not happy with the decision you then have a right to appeal
to the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner, you do this either
by visiting [2]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appea... or by post to:
Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9DS.
Yours sincerely
Molly Longstaff
for the
Information Management Team
Scottish Borders Council
Newtown St Boswells
TD6 0SA
E mail: [Scottish Borders Council request email]
Tel: 0300 100 1800
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Dear FOI Team,
Thank you very much for all the information you have sent through, it is greatly appreciated.
Best wishes,
Kate
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