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Green Pest Management in the Food Industry

Jeffrey A. Weier Technical Director

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What is Green? Why Green?

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What is Green?

 Sustainable Practices  Efficient Resource Use  Do not Degrade the

Environment

 You Environmental “Foot

Print”

 People have different levels

• f “Greenness”

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Why Green

 Our customers are asking for it

 It doesn’t matter if we agree with it

• r believe in it

 It is permeating every aspect of our

lives

 It has been taught in our schools for

the last 30+ years

 Being Green has merit

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Opportunities Exist

 Within your business  With the services you

provide

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Within Your Business

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Carbon Centered Ideas

Carbon Neutral: Reducing energy use and

compensating for the amount of carbon dioxide an entity generates through either obtaining energy from renewable sources or offsetting.

Carbon Offsets: Credits earned for activities that

help balance CO2 emissions, such as planting

• trees. They can also be bought from a provider

who uses the money to plant trees, generate renewable energy or conserve energy.

Carbon Footprint: An estimate of how much

carbon dioxide an entity (be it person, family or building) produces and releases into the atmosphere

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Carbon Footprint

 Fuel efficient vehicles  Efficient routing  Energy efficient lighting

 Types of fixtures  Lighting control, motion sensors

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Sustainable Energy

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Recycle

 Recycle cans, bottles  Recycle paper

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Reducing Resource Use

 Using electronic data

collection and reporting to reduce paper use

 Using paper with recycled

content

 Water use; low flow toilets

etc.

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Pest Control Products and Services

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Not Green?

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Green Pest Management

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Based on IPM

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Documentation is Critical

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Education Necessary

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Begins with Inspection

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Physical Control measures first

 Sanitation  Building Maintenance  Exclusion  Trapping  Removal of Pests

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If pesticides are needed, use the least toxic, Selective Solution

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Selective Solutions

 Those methods that, as much

as possible, impact the target pest, effectively eliminate it and affect nothing else

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Achieving Selective Solutions

 Identify and remove the conditions

that allow pests to survive

 Always seek to apply permanent

rather than temporary solutions to pest issues

 Seek out the source  Choose products and application

methods that are effective and low risk (Least Toxic)

 Strive to reduce waste  Give preference to materials and

applications that are target specific

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Achieving Selective Solutions

 Make no “routine” applications  No general surface applications  Preventative applications generally

not justified

 Work with product manufacturers

committed to sustainability

 Must be effective!

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Practical Suggestions

 Baits, roaches , ants , flies, termites  Non-toxic rodent bait for monitoring  Boric acid, DE etc  EPA reduced risk and exempt

products

 Pheromones and mating disruption  Heat and Cold  Vacuum

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Non-Toxic Rodent Baits

 New ones contain Biomarker  Can help determine the

source of an infestation

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Least toxic Pesticides

 Diatomaceous Earth  Spinosid  Insect Growth Regulators  Plant Oils

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Reduced Risk Pesticides

 Indoxacarb  Dinotefuran  Cholecalciferol  Metapesticide

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Pheromones

 Attraction  Repulsion  Confusion

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MD Allure

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CideTrak IMM

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Exosex SP Tab

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Is Fumigation Green?

 Profume  EcoFume  Fumigation systems

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Green Standards and Certification

 Unlike Organic, no government

programs exist

 Private organizations are

currently filling the void

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Green Certification Programs

 GreenShield  Green Pro  LEED Certification

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Green Shield

Green Shield Certified is an independent, non-profit certification program that promotes practitioners of effective, prevention-based pest control while minimizing the need to use pesticides. Because our approach addresses the underlying cause of pest problems, it is more effective than conventional spray-intensive services. Green Shield Certification is available to qualifying pest control professionals and to buildings and facilities where our standards are attained.

http://www.greenshieldcertified.org/

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Green Pro

 Part of NPMA Quality Pro  Certifies companies  Management training  Technician training  Programs for specific accounts

http://www.npmagreenpro.org/

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LEED

Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design

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LEED Certification The U.S. Green Building Council

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-

party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. http://www.usgbc.org/

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Pest Control and LEED

 Buildings are rated on a point

system

 Pest Control can gain two points

for the building

 Credits for IPM in two areas,

Sustainable sites and Indoor air quality

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Questions?