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Pesticide-Free
School Strategies Working
Perrysburg Messenger Journal
January, 1998
Since the Perrysburg School District kicked the pesticide habit
last spring, Frank Elementary School is pest free-naturally.
Frank School custodian Sandy
Harrison gives the new pest-fighting system high marks.
"The school had a serious
ant problem," she said, "and an exterminator was called
regularly to kill the intruders."
Now instead of using deadly pesticides,
Ms. Harrison takes a borax solution and sprays it once a week
where the ants like to congregate-like the table storage areas
in the cafeteria.
The result? "We have much
better control than we had with all that poison sprayed in the
building," she said in an interview last week. "I'm
very pleased."
Using a three-inch thick book
called The Best Control she can find a nontoxic solution
to every pest problem.
For example, yellow jackets in
the dumpster area. THe manual advises,
A very effective stinging insect trap can be made using a two-liter
Pepsi bottle. Fill the two-liter bottle with warm water and
stab three to five openings around the bottle five inches to
eight inches up from the bottom with a ball point pen. Hold
the pen so only about three-fourths of an inch penetrates the
bottle. Cap the bottle and place wherever you are having stinging
insect problems, e.g., dumpsters, picnic tables, etc. If pests
are escaping through the same punctured holes, redo the trap
using smaller holes.
Negative ion purple plates
are tools also being used in the schools. They are mounted on
the corners of the Frank cafeteria about eight feet from the
floor. According to the manual, the plates "are made of
energized, anodized aluminum that is completely natural and
never needs recharging. They can be effective for a year or
more and when placed in a proper grid pattern, will repel and
remove many pests within 3-30 days." The negative ion plates
are said to create or focus natural energy.
Ms. Harrison acknowledges she
doesn't know how they work. "But whatever they [the
purple plates] do and we do is working," she said.
She remembers school staff were
a bit skeptical when they first heard of the system developed
by a Michigan company that manages pest control with nontoxic
materials. She's a believer now.
The president of the campany,
Steve Tvedten, was involved in traditional pest control applications
for 30 years. He changed to integrated nontoxic pest control
eight years ago after becoming seriously ill. Mr. Tvedten held
training for Perrysburg school staff, including custodians,
groundskeepers, cafeteria workers, principals and nurses.
He displayed common pesticides
and cleaning products that have poisonous ingredients listed
on the labels. For example, a can of household bug spray listed
the ingredient organophosphates. He said it was developed by
Hitler in World War II to penetrate mustard gas masks; it was
the nerve gas used by terrorists in the Japanese subway attack
in 1996.
Frank school custodian Sandy
Harrison points out on of the pest-controlling negative
ion purple plates installed in the school cafeteria.
They work, she says.
He writes in the company manual,
"It makes no sense to use poisons that do not even control
pests adn are known to impair or destroy children's lives adn
their ability to think and develop normally, in the very places
that are mandated to provide a safe learning and growing environment."
Richard Jones, business manager
of the Perrysburg School District said last week he will recommend
continuing the contract until it expires in the Spring.
"There are sonme good success
stories," he said. "We still have some problems here
or there and we call and they send something. The main thing
is the poisons are out of the buildings and off the grounds."
Both Mr. Jones and Ms. Harrison have used the strategies they've
learned in the own homes.
Mr. Jones said the service cost
$7,800 the first year and the district had been spending a comparable
amount for an exterminator.
"The pesticide-free strategy
is a way of life that must be constantly kept up," he said.
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