PRK Mission Statement:

In June 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada clarified that municipalities have the right to pass bylaws to protect the health of their residents. There is increasing evidence that pesticides* can be harmful to our health, particularly for the most vulnerable in our community – children, pregnant women, seniors, people with compromised immune systems or lung disease – as well as being harmful to pets & wildlife.

Pesticides Reduction Kingston (PRK) is an ‘umbrella’ educational and advocacy group made up of local residents & community organisations. We are all working to reduce the pesticides in our community. Our aim is to encourage property owners, residents, corporations and the City of Kingston to use pest and weed control methods which are safer for the environment. We are therefore working to ensure that the City of Kingston passes (and enforces) a bylaw, similar to the City of Hudson’s 1991 bylaw, to limit the private cosmetic use of pesticides.

*The word ‘pesticides’ here includes herbicides,
insecticides, algaecides and fungicides.