Join us for a viewing of Into the Weeds

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This documentary film takes you inside the courtroom during the Johnson vs. Monsanto Company trail, where Monsanto's own internal documents were used to prove RoundUp as a carcinogen and a threat to public health.

Buy tickets here for this one day only viewing!

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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS to serve on HOPS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Are you an expert in Organic Land Management, the occupational hazards of pesticide use, and/or environmental justice? Serve on the Public Health Department's inaugural HOPS Committee to enforce one of the most progressive pesticide laws in the country.  Read more

Philadelphia will join over 100 US cities, including NYC, in severely restricting the use of toxic herbicides on all City grounds, including parks, right of ways, playgrounds, and recreation centers.

In Philadelphia, at least 18 toxic herbicides are applied to public grounds, including glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Roundup, and 2,4-D, one of the two active ingredients in Agent Orange. This is unacceptable, and completely unnecessary, given the wealth of cost-effective non-toxic solutions that are available.

New information: Every week new information is added to the already significant evidence that exposure to synthetic pesticides is linked to asthma, cancer, developmental and learning disabilities, nerve and immune system damage, liver and kidney damage, reproductive impairment, birth defects, and disruption of the endocrine system.
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Children are the most vulnerable: Infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems and chemical sensitivities are especially vulnerable.

Protect city employees: Our public employees and sub contractors also have the right to a safe work environment and shouldn’t be exposed to synthetic toxic pesticides. In the last two years, over $2 billion has been awarded against pesticide manufacturers for causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to people who applied synthetic pesticides.

Our mission and vision

MAP of US Pesticide Reform Policies

Toxic Free Philly is a growing coalition of concerned Philadelphia residents, visitors, neighbors, and organizations. We advocate for all Philadelphia public grounds to be safe, healthy, and thriving habitats for residents and wildlife alike. Our approach is to bring together public health experts, community leaders, business interests, the urban agriculture community, lawyers and local government to work to protect public health and restore environmental quality.
Our short term goals include an ordinance severely restricting the use of harmful, synthetic herbicides, particularly glyphosate and 2,4-D, on city grounds. We are currently arranging a collaboration around a pilot park program that will transition two public parks to organic management protocols.
Our long term goal is to pass robust legislation in Philadelphia severely restricting the application of all harmful, synthetic pesticides on city grounds, including toxic insecticides, fungicides, and rodenticides, and replacing the toxic paradigm with organic land management protocols.  

New Federal Legislation introduced to ban some pesticides and suspend use of 85 others

"THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING"

Why we are concerned, and why you should be, too.

Are pesticides really so bad?