Your submission to Call for information on use of glyphosate-containing substances
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Reference no: 4
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Which group do you belong to? Please select the category that most closely matches your role.
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Member of the public (for example domestic user / non-glyphosate user) Notes
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Do you use glyphosate? (mandatory question) Position
No Notes
It should be banned
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5.1 What are the positive or negative effects of glyphosate products on the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites including kāinga and marae, wāhi tapu, valued flora and fauna, mahinga kai, rongoā, and other taonga?
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Affects the natural environment and birds/animals drinking from streams.
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5.2 What positive or negative impacts do glyphosate products have on the health, environmental, economic, social and cultural wellbeing of Māori?
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This washes into our water. I have seen council workers spraying near water or just before it rains. Please stop using it.
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7.2 Do you have information on any of the following:
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any alternatives to glyphosate products Notes
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7.4 What alternatives are available that could replace the use of glyphosate products? What are the relative costs, availability, and safety of these alternatives?
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Natural regenerative alternatives
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8.1 On a scale of 1–5, how aware are you of the rules and controls associated with importing, manufacturing, selling and using products containing glyphosate?
Position 4 Notes
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8.2 Do you think the rules and controls are enough to manage the risks?
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No (please specify why not) Notes
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It is not a necessary risk. There are alternatives
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8.3 Do you have any concerns that the use of glyphosate products impacts people’s health?
Position Yes Notes
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8.4 Do you have any concerns that the use of glyphosate products impacts the environment?
Position Yes Notes
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8.5 Do you have any concerns that the use of glyphosate products have an impact on public spaces?
Position Yes Notes
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8.6 What positive or negative impacts do you think glyphosate products have on environmental, economic, social and cultural wellbeing?
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As mentioned in notes above
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8.7 Do you think glyphosate products should be available and easy to buy for everyone, or available to professional users only?
Notes Total ban
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8.8 How do you think it would affect you or New Zealand if the use of glyphosate products was further restricted?
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Better for all of us.
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