Raw materials for producing even the greenest of the green products must be harvested, processed, shipped, manufactured, packaged, labeled, warehoused, shipped again, and at the end, the packaging disposed of. All of these things require the use of energy.

What I prefer, is the use of pest prevention instead of control. Let me explain what I mean and why.

It has to do with mindset, with our tendency to put out fires, instead of preventing them. We seem to have no problem understanding this as it relates to disease.

Preventing the flu, preventing the common cold, or any other virus or disease is the standard. Controlling the flu, or treating the flu is understood to be the least appealing scenario outside of dying from it! Would you prefer to avoid pneumonia, or control and treat it with a non toxic remedy? Yet somehow, we can't seem to make the logical next step of applying this to the problem of pests.

Allow me to offer some environmental incentive. 12 reasons why preventing pests is the greenest form of green pest control, greener even than the use of green pest products:. 

1. No energy spent on the shipment of raw materials for the product to a factory.
2. No energy to manufacture the product.
3. No energy spent to ship raw materials for packaging.
4. No energy to manufacture packaging.
5. No energy to ship raw materials for labeling.
6. No energy to manufacture and print labeling.
7. No energy spent on storage at the factory.
8. No energy spent on shipment to a warehouse.
9. No energy for storage in a warehouse.
10. No energy for shipping the finished product.
11. No energy for displaying in a retail store.
12. There is no packaging to end up in a landfill.

I hope this has been an encouragement for you to give pest prevention a try before you try any other means of control.

Note: This article should not be seen as being opposed to green pest products. Many of them are great, and I am glad to see progress in this area, but like the commercial chemicals, the need for using them can be greatly diminished by using good IPM and pest prevention practices. This site is a resource for doing this.

This site has the information you need for your quest to prevent pests. A great place to get started is How To Use This Site, a green guide to using this green guide to pest prevention! Before you get started, why not bookmark this page, so it will be easy to find again? It will only take a second, we will wait!

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