the movement to ban cosmetic chem use on lawns started in Canada in Quebec and then spread to 
Ontario this spring. many eastern US cities were the early adapters. 

http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=371 

here's a list of US Cities on board, banning the use on city public land.  

http://www.beyondpesticides.org/lawn/activist/index.htm#locali 

you can make fun of it if you want, but we're talking a large tonnage of materials that could be taken 
out of the environment. 

oh yeah - BTW - lots of women's cosmetics are full of nasty materials too. some of the more 
informed women buy all plant based products in a rapidly growing market.   

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