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Schools Save Money With lntegrated Pest Management
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Sort Desciption: ... and other institutions have reduced their pest control costs early in the transition, often in the first year. 2 The Washington State Department of Ecology has done a careful analysis of the costs of pest ...
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Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
Page 18
Pesticides and You
Vol. 22, No. 1, 2002
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ntegrated Pest Management (IPM) is a program of prevention,
monitoring and control which offers the opportunity
to eliminate or drastically reduce pesticides in
schools, and to minimize the toxicity of and exposure to any
products which are used. Habitat modification, the cornerstone
to any IPM program, is key to eliminating and preventing
pest outbreaks.
Because IPM focuses on prevention of the pest problem, and
proper monitoring to determine the extent of the pest problem,
school IPM programs can decrease the amount of money
a school will spend on pest control in the long-term. Chemical-intensive
method s, a symptomatic approach to managing
pest problems, may only prove to be less expensive in the short-
term. The long-term health of our children is not worth some
short-term economic savings that just do not add up over time.
According to the U ...
