As from midnight last night certain weapons of mass destruction were banned in the UK (and, I think, other European countries). They could be bought up to midnight, and then the shops selling them had to remove all stocks from their shelves, and they can't be bought this morning. Any that we have bought must be used up in the next three months, and anything left after that has to be disposed of properly by local authorities.
What it means is that we're no longer able to buy certain pesticides and weed killers for garden use. The problem is that no-one bothered to publicised this European directive (they frequently don't) so the public and the local authorities weren't aware of it until a couple of days ago. I've probably got stuff in the shed sold only for agricultural use which I had when we had a couple of acres in Somerset 6 years ago. So I'm already illegal. >From the Guardian newspaper: "More than 80 popular garden pest and weed control products now on sale are to be outlawed in two weeks and will have to be disposed of by local authorities, but most councils are unaware of their new responsibilities. Lawn feed and weedkiller products sold under their own labels by Asda, B&Q, Boots, Do-It-All, Homebase and Woolworths are being banned from sale on July 24 by an unpublicised European directive. >From Christmas, the ban extends to gardeners who have the chemicals stored in the shed. On January 1 it will become illegal to use products containing ingredients like dichlorprop, tar acids and Trifoline and, as toxic waste, they must be handed over to local authorities." The stupid thing is that some of the products will be repackaged (not necessarily with a modified recipe), and will be able to be sold again. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
