World pesticide use exceeded 5.0 billion lbs in both 2000 and 2001 (total cost, $64.5 billion) with the United States accounting for 1.2 billion lbs per year at an annual cost of $11 billion. While the totals are staggering, so too is the infinitesimal amount of those five billion pounds a year that actually make it to the target pest - less than 0.1 percent.
No one has accounted for where the other 99.9 percent ends up, and it is known these compounds can travel thousands of miles around… Continue