How to get rid of roundup
Q & A with Jeffrey Smith: HOW TO DISPOSE OF ROUNDUP
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hi everyone this is Jeffrey Smith and
I'm with Bethany from the Institute for
Responsible technology Bethany you
answer people's emails you answer their
questions give me a question that you
think that others besides the person
that you responded to would like to know
sir
how do you safely dispose of roundup
well first of all you force bankruptcy
of Monsanto bear that would be nice way
to dispose of roundup so I've never
bought roundup I've never had it in my
house so when people asked me originally
I went I don't know call someone so I
guess you've emailed Bethany and now I
have to answer the question and the
answer is call someone the answer is
call the people that handles the
Sanitation locally and find out how to
deal with disposal of toxic wastes
typically have to bring it somewhere and
it'll be different in different places
you don't want to just put it in the
toilet you don't want to put it into the
garbage you do want to dispose of it
carefully now you can think about well
I'll just dump it on the soil let it
degrade no please don't first of all the
degradation of glyphosate the chief
poisonous molecule among many in roundup
has it's not biodegradable
Monsanto got convicted of false
advertising by a New York Court they
knew that only 2% degraded in 28 days
then they continued to call it
biodegradable in Europe until a French
Court caught them and charged them
twenty eight thousand euros oh dear you
know it's like that talk about a slap on
the wrist that's hardly that's missing
the wrist so they got away with murder
by convincing people that it was
biodegradable it turns out it depends on
the organic nature of the soil where the
clay content the pH and in some
conditions it takes decades to degrade
the longest recorded half-life which is
the amount of time it takes to degrade
to 50% was 22 years it usually it will
take a year and a half but again it
depends and that's just a half-life so
you don't want to put it so
or dump it in the forest because it'll
damage it'll be maintained it'll ill
also destroy some of the microbe our
microbiota the microbiome of the soil
killing the beneficials promoting the
fungal growth it's a disaster so check
in locally now if you've already sprayed
it what can you do I can tell you that I
don't have a quick answer to what way
you can remediate the soil but I hope to
so make sure you're subscribing to the
Institute for Responsible technology
because I know people who are developing
biological remediation agents in other
words little microbes that you can be
there liquefy and put them in there and
they may show up and dispose of the
glyphosate that's already been sprayed
one interesting thing that I learned
from dr. Don Huber professor emeritus of
Purdue University is once you spray it
it can bind and stay dormant in the soil
but if you add phosphate or different
things to the soil it can break that bud
and now it's active again so it's really
devious so the answer to question what
was the question
dispose of it let's let's dispose of
Monsanto and there but in the meantime
call someone does that answer the
question yes that's great thank you safe
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