Totana is the fourth municipality of the Region of Murcia that has become in recent years "Free City of Glyphosate", with Cartagena, Molina de Segura and Santomera, after a motion was approved in May 2016, remember the mayor of Environment, Antonia Camacho.
In fact, the City of Totana already collaborated last October in the organization of the "I Conference on Alternatives to Herbicides in Public Spaces", which was held at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Murcia, in the Campus of Espinardo;
and in which more sustainable and less polluting alternatives to chemical herbicides were discussed and analyzed, with the presence of the Councilor for the Environment, Antonia Camacho, and municipal technicians from the Parks and Gardens area.
The Plenary of Totana approved, in this regard, a motion in this regard, encouraging public administrations to make use of ecological and non-toxic proposals in urban environments and public spaces;
and giving an express support to this type of less toxic initiatives such as a city free of herbicides.
It was also agreed to prohibit the use of this herbicide in parks, gardens and public areas of Totana, as well as to urge the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture to prohibit the use of the herbicide glyphosate in the Murcian and totanero field, points out the mayor Camacho
However, it is in the agricultural sector where the most controversial is the use of this herbicide, the most widely used worldwide: controversy between lobbyists who defend it and those who warn of the consequences on people's health.
The critics to the use of this phytosanitary ware remember that the International Agency for the Investigation on the Cancer, employee of the World-wide Organization of the Health, has recognized the glyphosate like a product "potentially carcinogenic".
